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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