[GRLUG] cron job an password

[Eric Beversluis]

Dear Folkert-jerk:
You ought to find out what you're talking about before calling people
names. I've known about permissions for years. It so happens that on
both my fedora 17 laptop and on the clearos server I'm working on, the
permissions for crontab as well as for all the various files under
cron.d are 644.

If you wanted to be helpful instead of being an *#$!@, it would have
been sufficient to advise me that the relevant cron files were
under /var/spool rather than /etc.

On Tue, 2013-06-11 at 15:03 -0400, Greg Folkert wrote:
> On Tue, 2013-06-11 at 09:44 -0400, 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.)
> 
> What looks like anyone can read the various cron files?
> 
> If it happens, your installation/distro is broken and seriously needs to
> be fixed. If *YOU* don;t understand permissions, please investigate
> them.
> 
> As far as I know... crontabs for individuals are not readable by even
> them without using crontab.
> 
> $ cat /var/spool/cron/greg
> cat: /var/spool/cron/greg: Permission denied
> $ crontab -e      #(allows me to edit my crontab and it is valid)
> $ ls -l /var/spool/cron/greg
> ls: /var/spool/cron/greg: Permission denied
> $
> 
> Now if you are talking for the files in /etc/cron.(d|daily|weekly|etc),
> then that is not a problem and these are typically used for
> non-passworded systems daemon maintenance like Log rotation or updating
> the apropos DB (aka whatis)
> 
> Please investigate permissions before you make more problems for
> yourself. (the 10 characters at the beginning of the long listing)
> 
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