root not allowed to use crontab

[Matias Feliciano]

Le mer 29/09/2004 à 10:22, Marius Andreiana a écrit :
> 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.

Things change.

btw, there are another places for admin cron :
ll -d /etc/cron*
drwxr-xr-x  2 root root 4096 sep 17 18:26 /etc/cron.d
drwxr-xr-x  2 root root 4096 sep 23 05:26 /etc/cron.daily
drwxr-xr-x  2 root root 4096 sep 20 23:58 /etc/cron.hourly
drwxr-xr-x  2 root root 4096 sep 20 23:58 /etc/cron.monthly
-rw-r--r--  1 root root  255 sep 20 23:58 /etc/crontab
drwxr-xr-x  2 root root 4096 sep 20 23:58 /etc/cron.weekly


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