[15019] in Athena Bugs
Re: sgi [8.0K]: update
daemon@ATHENA.MIT.EDU (Mike Barker)
Thu Mar 20 09:57:18 1997
To: Jonathon Weiss <jweiss@MIT.EDU>
Cc: bugs@MIT.EDU
In-Reply-To: Your message of "Thu, 20 Mar 1997 00:59:49 EST."
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Date: Thu, 20 Mar 1997 09:57:15 EST
From: Mike Barker <mbarker@MIT.EDU>
both of these files are of the format
# This file records whether the
# cron and at allow/deny files have
# been configured, and to disambiguate
# the presence/absence of those files.
configured
man says
Users are permitted to use crontab if their names appear in the file
/usr/lib/cron/cron.allow. If that file does not exist, the file
/usr/lib/cron/cron.deny is checked to determine if the user should be
denied access to crontab. If neither file exists, only root is allowed to
submit a job. If cron.allow does not exist and cron.deny exists but is
empty, global usage is permitted. The allow/deny files consist of one
user name per line.
(at has almost identical language)
if cron.allow exists
permissions in file
else
if cron.deny exists
if entries
denials in file
else
global access
else (neither file exists)
root only usage
endif
endif
I must be missing something--there doesn't seem to be an ambiguity in
that.
maybe someone else will have a better idea of what this is doing.
mike
