cron.allow and cron.deny

[Bill Tangren]

Steve Berg wrote:
>> 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.

True. Which is why I asked which "system accounts" needed access to cron.

Thanks for the reply.