Debian: Crontab -e error: crontabs/myusername/: fdopen: Permission denied
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Problem
When I try to edit my crontab with crontab -e, I get this error message:
$ crontab -e crontabs/myusername/: fdopen: Permission denied
Environment
- Debian-6.0.2 (Squeeze)
Solution
1. Add myusername to the crontab group:
$ sudo usermod -aG crontab myusername
2. Logout and login myusername. Now crontab -e works for me.
See also
- http://www.parseerror.com/argh/crontab-e-Permission-denied.txt
- http://serverfault.com/questions/274434/cron-permission-denied-on-everything
Journal
20110707
Setting the "setgid bit" made does NOT resolve the error for me:
# ls -l /usr/bin/crontab -rwxr-sr-x 1 root root 30248 Dec 19 2010 /usr/bin/crontab # chmod g+s /usr/bin/crontab # ls -l /usr/bin/crontab -rwxr-sr-x 1 root root 30248 Dec 19 2010 /usr/bin/crontab # # ... # # I'm still getting the "Permission denied" error # # ... # chmod g-s /usr/bin/crontab # Restoring/unsetting setgid
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