topic Re: Crontab permissions in Operating System - HP-UX

Crontab permissions

Steve Massey_1 — Tue, 20 Jun 2000 14:22:36 GMT

Hi
I am trying to implement a password change script that allows the box to change the password every so often based on set values.

I want to do this using cron - problem I have is that every time root crontab is modified it is left as r (444) for others.

how can I ensure that this is always (600) when an administrator changes it??

Any ideas appreciated

Steve

Re: Crontab permissions

TC ITEMS Unix Admin — Tue, 20 Jun 2000 14:32:55 GMT

Try

man umask

you probably want umask 377

good luck

Re: Crontab permissions

Thomas G. Tudrej — Tue, 20 Jun 2000 16:16:59 GMT

umask setitng in /.profile sounds like the place to look.

Re: Crontab permissions

Fred Martin_1 — Wed, 21 Jun 2000 11:12:26 GMT

Setting umask as suggested, affects all files so that may not be what you want. I wrote a shell script that is a front-end to crontab ... it edits the cron then does a chmod on the file after the fact.