Xref: utzoo comp.unix.questions:14791 comp.unix.wizards:17194 Path: utzoo!attcan!uunet!cs.utexas.edu!tut.cis.ohio-state.edu!cwjcc!hal!ncoast!allbery From: allbery@ncoast.ORG (Brandon S. Allbery) Newsgroups: comp.unix.questions,comp.unix.wizards Subject: Re: at files and permissions Message-ID: <13809@ncoast.ORG> Date: 9 Jul 89 15:36:14 GMT References: <1894@cbnewsh.ATT.COM> <669@lzaz.ATT.COM> Reply-To: allbery@ncoast.ORG (Brandon S. Allbery) Followup-To: comp.unix.questions Distribution: na Organization: Cleveland Public Access UN*X, Cleveland, Oh Lines: 15 As quoted from <669@lzaz.ATT.COM> by hutch@lzaz.ATT.COM (R.HUTCHISON): +--------------- | About "at" requiring "root" permission, I guess it needs it to write | into the "atjobs" directory. +--------------- at needs root permissions so it can setuid() itself to the owner of the at job file, so it can execute the job as the user who submitted it. ++Brandon -- Brandon S. Allbery, moderator of comp.sources.misc allbery@ncoast.org uunet!hal.cwru.edu!ncoast!allbery ncoast!allbery@hal.cwru.edu Send comp.sources.misc submissions to comp-sources-misc@ NCoast Public Access UN*X - (216) 781-6201, 300/1200/2400 baud, login: makeuser