[SOLVED] Change default cron path for a user without home

[kgdrenefort]

Hello,

as the topic says, I have an user without home, should not have one.

I can't define a crontab for it, because this user don't have a home.

I'll try systemd timer another time, for now I would like to have a working cron for this user.

For root, it works indeed since it have a home dir, but this user report this error after saving a cron file:

[RumpletonBongworth]

[kgdrenefort]

Hello,

For context, I need / want an user to manage some tasks on my servers and, possibly, with the less permissions and ownership necessary.

Thus, I did not wanted this one to get a home directory (because until cronie, it wasn't necessary).

But from your explaination and some more research, it seems you are right and have reached a point where this user need a home directory.

It's not a problem, I wanted to avoid that behaviour if possible, if it's not a good idea I'll add to this user the home directory needed for cronie.

#1 is far better and taking more sense than #2 and specially #3. 

Thanks for your time and knowledge.

PS : For the record and future reader, don't use usermod -m -d /home/user user to add it. Simply create the directory and set ownership to user:user, then it uses it by default if the user was created and trying to point things out by default, as my cron working now.

Regards,
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[RumpletonBongworth]

Just to add that you can also chmod the home directory with a mode of 700, in case you're worried about some other process running as the "srvadm" user ever writing something there that should not be seen by processes running as other users.