New on sources: cron-3.0.1-1

[Corinna Vinschen]

On Fri, Jun 22, 2001 at 01:50:20AM +0200, Michael Schaap wrote:
> At 20:43 21-6-2001, Corinna Vinschen wrote:
> >Maybe, I missed something when porting. I'm currently in vacation
> >so that will take some time.
> 
> I think you should interrupt your vacation to solve this problem RIGHT NOW!
> (Just kidding, of course.  Enjoy your well deserved vacation.)
> 
> In any case, I checked the source code, and crontab indeed tries to seteuid 
> to ROOT_UID (= System).  It looks like you added code to seteuid back to 
> the original uid almost immediately afterwards.  If you instead not seteuid 
> at all, it seems to work fine.  (Well, probably only for users with 
> Administrator privileges, but that's better than requiring System privileges.)
> 
> I've attached a patch for this change.
> 
>   - Michael

Thanks, Michael!

I have applied the patch and uploaded a new version of cron (3.0.1-2)
to sourceware. It should appear on the mirrors at least tomorrow.

Corinna

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