Re: Bug in cron postinst

[Matt Zimmerman <mdz@debian.org>]

On Wed, Sep 03, 2003 at 10:48:36AM -0500, Steve Greenland wrote:

> On 03-Sep-03, 01:33 (CDT), Goswin von Brederlow <brederlo@informatik.uni-tuebingen.de> wrote: 
> > And lets add a user with homedir "`rm -rf ..`" just for fun.
> 
> I'm missing something here. What does the user's homedir have to do with
> anything? The entry in the spool dir is the username.
> 
> Someone else mentioned usernames with spaces...is that really supported?

I suppose it could be.  I think that:

find /var/spool/cron/crontabs -mindepth 1 -maxdepth 1 -print0 | xargs -0 -r chgrp crontab

will handle all cases, including an empty directory, and will also fork
less.

Of course, if usernames can contain slashes, we are all in far worse
trouble. :-)

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 - mdz