[CLUE-Tech] Synching time shell script, where to put it to autosynch?

Kevin Cullis kevincu at orci.com
Mon Feb 11 19:00:05 MST 2002


So, what would you recommend instead?  Putting it in the bin directory
under root and then linking it?

Thanks for the awareness of the security problem I would create.

Kevin

Sean Reifschneider wrote:
> 
> On Sun, Feb 10, 2002 at 10:05:45AM -0700, Kevin Cullis wrote:
> >run it manually.  A friend suggested putting it in my home directory and
> >then linking it to cron.daily or ip-up scripts.  I don't know enough to
> 
> Since cron.daily and ip-up run as root, that's a good way of allowing
> somone who gains access to your account to jump to the root account...
> Just food for thought...
> 
> Sean
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