.\" Agency (DARPA) and Air Force Research Laboratory, Air Force
.\" Materiel Command, USAF, under agreement number F39502-99-1-0512.
.\"
-.\" $OpenBSD: cron.8,v 1.34 2015/11/12 21:14:01 jmc Exp $
+.\" $OpenBSD: cron.8,v 1.35 2017/06/08 17:13:39 millert Exp $
.\"
-.Dd $Mdocdate: November 12 2015 $
+.Dd $Mdocdate: June 8 2017 $
.Dt CRON 8
.Os
.Sh NAME
files will be ignored if they do not have the proper file mode.
For user crontab files created by
.Xr crontab 1 ,
-the mode must be 0400 or 0600.
+the mode must be 0600.
If the system crontab file is used,
.Pa /etc/crontab
-must not be writable by any user other than root.
+must not be writable by any user other than root and must not have
+the execute, set-user-ID, set-group-ID or sticky bits set.