Re: crontab problems in 3.2

["Arne P. Boettger" <apb@wohnheim.fh-wedel.de>]

In lists.openbsd-misc, you wrote:
> After upgrading one of my servers to 3.2, normal users
> cannot change their crontab; I get a permission denied error when
> crontab probably tries to create a temporary file in /var/cron/tabs:

[..]

> I've upgraded according to the minifaq.
> If I change the permissions of /var/cron/tabs to 0770 it gets resolved,
> but then the nightly securitycheck says:
> 
> Checking special files and directories.
> Output format is:
>         filename:
>                 criteria (shouldbe, reallyis)
> var/cron/tabs:
>         permissions (0700, 0770)

it seems like you did not update /etc/mtree. Do that and change the
permissions of /var/cron/tabs to 01730, as the 3.2
/etc/mtree/security suggests.

Ciao, Arne.
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