[101185] in RedHat Linux List
CRON Bahaviour
daemon@ATHENA.MIT.EDU (Vineeta)
Wed Nov 25 02:15:28 1998
Date: Wed, 25 Nov 1998 13:06:54 +0530
From: Vineeta <vineeta@vidya.aptech.ac.in>
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Hi,
I wanted to know what is the default behaviour of crontab i.e. are all users
by default permitted to have their own crontabs & modify them also?Where is
this specified?
Also,today i put two entries in /etc/cron.allow(line separated),& it worked
just fine.Before doing that,i'd seen that there was no /etc/cron.allow already existing.I tried logging in as third user & it didn't allow me to run crontab.
That worked great.But after that i removed /etc/cron.allow & it's allowing
all users to create their own crontabs.The entries in /var/spool/cron are:
rw------- root username user's_file
Can't really understand how all users are getting access to crontab now??
I tried creating an empty /etc/cron.allow file & now it works as it should.
i.e. doesn't allow anyone to execute crontab.
But i clearly remember there was no /etc/cron.allow before i started.
What is going on???
Thanx,
Vineeta
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