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Re: crontab security question



From: Steve Greenland <stevegr@starbase.neosoft.com>
> 
> If I understand the problem with commands like 
> 
> 	find /tmp -mtime +1 -print | xargs rm -f
> 
> correctly, it requires write access to exploit to the directory 
> to exploit.

Only write access to /tmp is necessary. The target directory need not
be writable.

	Bruce
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