Have the cron file permissions changed in Red Hat Enterprise Linux 5?

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Issue

cron file permissions have changed in Red Hat Enterprise Linux 5

Environment

Red Hat Enterprise Linux 5 and later

Resolution

Prior to Red Hat Enterprise Linux 5, when a normal user created a cron job via the crontab -e command, a file would be created with that user's username in the /var/spool/cron

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