cron.allow and cron.deny

Steve Berg sberg at mississippi.com
Mon Sep 11 16:44:32 UTC 2006


> El Lunes, 11 de Septiembre de 2006 18:35, Bill Tangren escribió:
> Only root should have access to cron. Otherwise, anyone gaining access to
> the
> system could schedule a damaging process to run at any time.

If that were true then the user could run the damaging process anytime
they wished since cron will execute a user's crontab with that user's
permissions.  On systems I work with cron is available to any user on a
fresh install.
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