Crontab permissions

[Steve Massey_1]

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

[TC ITEMS Unix Admin · Accepted solution]

Try

man umask

you probably want umask 377

good luck

[Thomas G. Tudrej]

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

[Fred Martin_1]

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.