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Old 03-02-2017
How to provide read access to root crontab?
Hi,

Is there any safe method to provide read access to root's crontab to another user? Just read no other permissions.
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Old 03-02-2017
You can setup the following privileges. do a chmod on the first three directories as 755.
Then do a chmod on /var/spool/cron/root as 644 and you will have what you want.

Code:
$ ls -ld /var /var/spool /var/spool/cron /var/spool/cron/root
drwxr-xr-x. 19 root root 267 Mar  2 05:59 /var
drwxr-xr-x.  9 root root  98 Oct 20 12:56 /var/spool
drwxr-xr-x.  2 root root  34 Mar  2 09:43 /var/spool/cron
-rw-r---r--.  1 root root  33 Mar  2 09:43 /var/spool/cron/root

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