[Lxc-users] Cron running as a non-root user

[Andre Nathan]

And of course I forgot the bugtracker link. Here  it is.

  http://bugs.debian.org/cgi-bin/bugreport.cgi?bug=30655


On Thu, 2011-02-17 at 13:40 -0200, Andre Nathan wrote:
> Hello
> 
> In order to minimize security risks, I'm running my ubuntu containers
> with a patched version of cron that allows it to run as an unprivileged
> user. This, of course, only works if all the jobs are run by the same
> user, but since my containers are single-user only it's no issue.
> 
> Incidentally, the Debian bug tracker has a 13 year-old (!) feature
> request including a patch that adds this behavior as a command line
> option. Since this can be really useful for people using LXC, I'm
> sending this message mostly as a heads-up, and maybe if enough people
> get show their support for the patch, it can make it into the official
> Debian package.
> 
> Best regards
> Andre
> 
> 
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