[GRLUG] cron job an password

[Greg Folkert]

On Tue, 2013-06-11 at 10:07 -0400, Topher wrote:
> On Tue, 11 Jun 2013, Eric Beversluis wrote:
> 
> > How can I set a cron job to do mysqldump without hardcoding the mysql
> > root password into the cron command? (It looks like anyone can read the
> > various cron files.)
> 
> Actually, cron jobs can only be read by the people who create them.  So if 
> you create a job as root, only root can see and edit it I believe.  It's 
> annoyed me in the past that this is the case.  :)
> 
> Topher

Only the tools for "crontab editing" can see the files that they
created. They cannot see their own files after being created or edited,
in a properly setup distro/system (which is most of them anyway in this
day and age.)

Now if he is talking the files in /etc/cron.d or cron.daily etc...
different story.
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