Re: Vixie/ISC Cron group crontab to root escalation

[Ian Zimmerman <itz () primate net>]

On 2017-06-08 20:05, Solar Designer wrote:

> Gentoo has a wiki page describing their Vixie Cron here:
>
> https://wiki.gentoo.org/wiki/Cron#vixie-cron
>
> Per their description, it's based on 4.1 and has some Linux specifics
> added (SELinux, PAM, etc.)  I don't know whether they use group
> crontab.

Yes:

~$ ls -l /usr/bin/crontab
-rwxr-sr-x 1 root crontab 44336 Oct 12  2016 /usr/bin/crontab

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