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From: Christian Kastner <ckk@kvr.at>
Date: Sat, 26 Dec 2015 19:51:53 +0100
Subject: Permit user to use -u option on self
Instead of entirely prohibiting non-root users to use the -u option, allow them
to use it on themselves, as this should be a null-op.
Fix provided by Steve Greenland <stevegr@debian.org>.
Forwarded: no
Last-Update: 2015-12-26
Index: cron/crontab.c
===================================================================
--- cron.orig/crontab.c
+++ cron/crontab.c
@@ -176,18 +176,19 @@ parse_args(argc, argv)
usage("bad debug option");
break;
case 'u':
- if (getuid() != ROOT_UID)
- {
- fprintf(stderr,
- "must be privileged to use -u\n");
- exit(ERROR_EXIT);
- }
if (!(pw = getpwnam(optarg)))
{
fprintf(stderr, "%s: user `%s' unknown\n",
ProgramName, optarg);
exit(ERROR_EXIT);
}
+ if ((getuid() != ROOT_UID) &&
+ (getuid() != pw->pw_uid))
+ {
+ fprintf(stderr,
+ "must be privileged to use -u\n");
+ exit(ERROR_EXIT);
+ }
free(User);
if ((User=strdup(pw->pw_name)) == NULL) {
fprintf(stderr, "Memory allocation error\n");
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