Re: limiting cron's capability?

["Dan Ritter-2" <user=13@nabble.blu.org>]

 On Wed, Jan 23, 2008 at 02:02:15PM -0500, Scott Ehrlich wrote: 
> Is it possible to prevent cron from executing something in a 
> world-readable directory, or a directory branching off a world-readable 
> directory? 

I think you should tell us what you want to do rather than 
asking if it's possible to do a particular thing. 

For example, perhaps you would like to run this particular cron 
job as a user other than root, which does not have execute 
permissions for the program in question? 

-dsr- 


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