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| -rw-r--r-- | usr.sbin/cron/cron.8 | 14 |
1 files changed, 13 insertions, 1 deletions
diff --git a/usr.sbin/cron/cron.8 b/usr.sbin/cron/cron.8 index e6fe731e9ef..515e306da2c 100644 --- a/usr.sbin/cron/cron.8 +++ b/usr.sbin/cron/cron.8 @@ -24,7 +24,7 @@ .\" OTHERWISE) ARISING IN ANY WAY OUT OF THE USE OF THIS SOFTWARE, EVEN IF .\" ADVISED OF THE POSSIBILITY OF SUCH DAMAGE. .\" -.\" $OpenBSD: cron.8,v 1.19 2003/02/19 22:11:42 millert Exp $ +.\" $OpenBSD: cron.8,v 1.20 2003/02/19 23:45:46 millert Exp $ .\" .Dd July 6, 2002 .Dt CRON 8 @@ -209,3 +209,15 @@ to check for crontab changes immediately .Xr crontab 5 .Sh AUTHORS Paul Vixie <vixie@isc.org> +.Sh CAVEATS +All +.Xr crontab 5 +files must not be readable or writable by any user other than their owner, +including +.Pa /etc/crontab . +In practice this means they should be mode 0600. +This restriction is enforced automatically by +.Xr crontab 1 +but if +.Pa /etc/crontab +is used, the mode must be set manually on that file. |