Posted by Jerry Stuckle on 09/09/05 23:31

Jamie Davison wrote:
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> On 9/9/05 3:30 PM, in article gZSdnWoBhal-SbzeRVn-qQ@comcast.com, "Jerry
> Stuckle" <jstucklex@attglobal.net> wrote:
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>>Phil,
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>>The scripts themselves may have an owner/group as phillip/apache - but
>>what user are they running under?
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> . . . Or more specifically, what "user" is the "cron process" running
> under? Crontabs running as root should be OK . . .
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You should never run cron processes under "root" unless they need access
to resources which are restricted to root. It's a huge security hole!

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