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[Marcus Dubois <marcus@xxxxxxxx>]

The difference with vanilla Ubuntu is that the program /usr/bin/crontab is sgid:ed which is not the case on ubuntu-eee
so an easy fix would probably be to just 'chmod g+s /usr/bin/crontab'

I haven't tested it yet thou.

But be aware that this is the classic way of introducing buffer overflow attacks, we should be really sure that we trust
the crontab program.


** Changed in: ubuntu-eee
       Status: New => Confirmed

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User lacks permission for crontab
https://bugs.launchpad.net/bugs/269265
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Status in Ubuntu Eee: Confirmed

Bug description:
8.04.1

In vanilla versions of Ubuntu, I can type "crontab -e" as a non-privileged user at a terminal and edit the schedule. In Ubuntu EEE 8.04.1, I get a "permission denied" error.