cron.allow and cron.deny

[Clark, Patricia]

Date: Mon, 11 Sep 2006 12:35:33 -0400
From: Bill Tangren <bjt at aa.usno.navy.mil>
Subject: cron.allow and cron.deny
To: General Red Hat Linux discussion list <redhat-list at redhat.com>
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I am required to limit access to the cron daemon using these two files.
My question is, which system accounts need access to cron, other than
root?

Thanks!

Bill Tangren
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Just to follow up since the replies were all over the map:

1)  root is the only system account that needs cron permissions.  
2)  All user accounts have crontab privileges unless one of the 2 files
mentioned above exist.  I prefer the cron.allow approach which
implements a deny all unless you are listed in this file.  The man page
on crontab(1) describes how to use these files.

Patti Clark
Unix System Administrator - RHCT
Office of Scientific and Technical Information