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 a process with appropriate privileges is allowed to submit a job. If only cron.deny exists and is empty, global usage is permitted. The cron.allow and cron.deny files consist of one user name per line.
Wednesday, 10 October 2007
Setting User Cronjobs
We normally face problems in adding cronjobs to user instead of root. Here is the solution :-
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 a process with appropriate privileges is allowed to submit a job. If only cron.deny exists and is empty, global usage is permitted. The cron.allow and cron.deny files consist of one user name per line.
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 a process with appropriate privileges is allowed to submit a job. If only cron.deny exists and is empty, global usage is permitted. The cron.allow and cron.deny files consist of one user name per line.
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