crontab in /var/spool/cron/crontabs are stored by username
Bug #73398 reported by
Jerome Haltom
This bug affects 1 person
Affects | Status | Importance | Assigned to | Milestone | |
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cron (Ubuntu) |
Confirmed
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Undecided
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Unassigned |
Bug Description
Binary package hint: cron
File in /var/spool/
There are two solutions:
a) name the files with an assigned immutable identifier, specifically the POSIX uid
b) open and locate files by enumerating the owner permission
Either solution solves the problem. Solution (a) is easier to code and leads to less overall confusion on the users (why is foo a file for foo2, and foo a file for bar?).
Changed in cron: | |
status: | Unconfirmed → Confirmed |
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Just wanted to add some more commentary. Solving this is rather important for company's and the like with centralized user bases. A lot of the time, people's login name gets renamed from a central authority... corporate policy, they get married, name changes, etc. It's important that a solution does not require the effected machine to be online to track the rename itself, as it might not be. Names could be retrieved from LDAP.