Rudder

I had set up a cron job v3 in this technique and defined a certain user to be used.
The interval I set to "hourly" since that was fine.

It seems (at least) when using a predefined interval rudder drops the cron file in the /etc/cron.<interval> folder, forgetting about the run-as setting three lines above.

Of course this has some security implications, not to mention messed up permissions.

At least the rule configuration needs to be clear and direct about this.
I'd also bed you to have a dozen unit tests on this that test all the different code paths since they seem to be pretty independent.

[root@rudder cron.hourly]# cat /etc/cron.hourly/job-myuser
echo "id ; hallo" > /tmp/hallo

after the next cron hourly run we end up with this file:

[root@rudder cron.hourly]# ls -ltr /tmp/hallo
-rw-r--r-- 1 root root 11 Feb 29 22:01 /tmp/hallo

Reproduced in a clean env, same result.