root not allowed to use crontab
Marius Andreiana
mandreiana at rdslink.ro
Wed Sep 29 08:22:01 UTC 2004
On Wed, 2004-09-29 at 08:53 +0100, Xander D Harkness wrote:
> I cannot see any thing in the changelog to say that the default
> behaviour has been changed to disallow root.
>
> If you put root in the file /etc/cron.allow, it will allow root to run
> cron jobs.
But why doesn't it work by default, as it used to? I never used
cron.allow/deny.
man says:
If the cron.allow file exists, then you must be listed therein in
order
to be allowed to use this command. If the cron.allow file
does not
exist but the cron.deny file does exist, then you must not be
listed in
the cron.deny file in order to use this command. If neither of
these
files exists, only the super user will be allowed to use this
command.
In FC2 and earlier, files didn't exist and anybody was allowed.
--
Marius Andreiana
Galuna - Solutii Linux in Romania
http://www.galuna.ro
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