Improve the setuid situation a bit, and make it more apparent

when people really ought to make busybox setuid root.
 -Erik

1 files changed, 3 insertions, 0 deletions

diff --git a/miscutils/Config.in b/miscutils/Config.in
index 3c92c4674..77e13e84e 100644
--- a/miscutils/Config.in
+++ b/miscutils/Config.in
@@ -15,6 +15,7 @@ config CONFIG_ADJTIMEX
 config CONFIG_CROND
         bool "crond"
         default n
+        select CONFIG_FEATURE_SUID
         help
           Crond is a background daemon that parses individual crontab
           files and executes commands on behalf of the users in question.
@@ -23,6 +24,8 @@ config CONFIG_CROND
               $ cat /var/spool/cron/crontabs/root
               # Run daily cron jobs at 4:40 every day:
               40 4 * * * /etc/cron/daily > /dev/null 2>&1
+          Note that Busybox binary must be setuid root for this applet to
+          work properly.
 
 config CONFIG_FEATURE_CROND_CALL_SENDMAIL
         bool "  Using /usr/sbin/sendmail?"