[BBLISA] crontab - corrected version

[David Allan]

On Wed, 23 Jan 2008, Scott Ehrlich wrote:

> So I want to see if there is a way to restrict crontab from running an 
> executable or anything else from a world-writable directory, or subdirectory 
> thereof.

I'm curious what your concern with cron is.  Since cron, as several people 
have pointed out, just runs jobs with the privileges of the owner of the 
crontab, its jobs don't have any privileges beyond what the user has. 
So, if the user can do something dangerous, it would make sense to prevent 
it, but why attack the problem through cron?

Dave