Crontab Permissions

[Jonski]

I get this error on my cron set up in Plesk...
/bin/sh: line 1: /usr/bin/wget: Permission denied

I tried...
chmod a+s /usr/bin/crontab
but got....
chmod: changing permissions of `/usr/bin/crontab': Operation not permitted

What to do next I wonder... :confused:

[Tony]

use /usr/bin/dltool instead.

wget is chmodded to 700 to stop payloads from being downloaded by exploiting vulnerable scripts. dltool is there as a replacement.

[Jonski]

Nice one. Thanks. :)

[vps-vince]

use /usr/bin/xxxx instead.

wget is chmodded to 700 to stop payloads from being downloaded by exploiting vulnerable scripts. dltool is there as a replacement.

Hi Tony,
May I suggest you edit the post to avoid some 'not so nice' people knowing about this?

Thanks,

- Vince

[Tony]

Hi Tony,
May I suggest you edit the post to avoid some 'not so nice' people knowing about this?

Thanks,

- Vince

It's in the knowledge base.

http://www.google.com/search?num=50&hs=Ja7&hl=en&lr=&client=opera&rls=en&q=wget+%2Bpowervps&***G=Search

If someone really wants either in to your VPS, or, to make it look like it was your VPS spamming/attacking/etc, they will. There isn't much that can be done about that. The purpose of dltool is just to stop scriptkiddie's bots, which exploit known vulnerabilities - phpbb for example -, and then try to release a payload. No ball, no play. ;-)

[ndndixie]

The "not so nice" folks are not reading this forum....they all reside on urls like www.hACkinnotjackin.com