#484743 wish that crontab had pam support

Package:
cron
Source:
cron
Description:
process scheduling daemon
Submitter:
Russell Coker
Date:
2010-05-15 16:45:04 UTC
Severity:
wishlist
#484743#5
Date:
2008-06-06 02:42:40 UTC
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I believe that a cron job is fundamentally different to a user login session.
The existence of the files /etc/cron.allow and /etc/cron.deny shows that for a
long time there has been a demand for the ability to control who can use cron
jobs.

It seems to me that the ideal way of managing this is via PAM.  Among other
things this would allow authenticating users by password at the time that they
change cron jobs (as they will be authenticated when they run chsh and similar
commands).
#484743#10
Date:
2010-05-14 15:40:55 UTC
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Tom Metro wrote:
       --report
              similar to --verbose, but only prints the name of scripts  which
              produce  output.   The  script’s name is printed to whichever of
              stdout or stderr the script first produces output on.
#484743#15
Date:
2010-05-15 16:33:43 UTC
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Justin Pryzby wrote:

It appears you posted this to the wrong bug. You quoted a comment in 404772.

 -Tom