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arcterex
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 Posted: Sat Feb 07, 2004 8:33 pm Post subject: Allow crontab for all users |
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Is there a good way to allow crontab use for all users? I could put them all in the cron group, but that sounds a bit hacky to me. Also I thought there were restrictions as to the number of users in a group (32 IIRC)?
Is there a better way? |
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plasmagunman
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| Posted: Sun Feb 08, 2004 11:34 am Post subject: Re: Allow crontab for all users |
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| arcterex wrote: | | Is there a good way to allow crontab use for all users? I could put them all in the cron group, but that sounds a bit hacky to me. |
actually that's the way to go. if you want users to use "su" put them into "wheel"-group. if you want them to be able to burn, "cdr"-group. access to floppy, cdrom, audio- and videodevices, games, manpages? put them in the appropriate groups. just edit /etc/group, change to | Code: | | cron::16:cron,YOURUSERNAME |
, relogin (restart x) and you're done. well, actually i never tried it with cron, but that should be the gentoo-way.
| Quote: | | Also I thought there were restrictions as to the number of users in a group (32 IIRC)? |
never heard of that one, but it's possible. how many users do you have on your system?
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ronmon
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| Posted: Sun Feb 08, 2004 1:35 pm Post subject: |
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| I suppose it depends on which cron package you use. With fcron (which I use) you can simply edit /etc/fcron/fcron.allow and /etc/fcron/fcron.deny. |
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asimon
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| Posted: Sun Feb 08, 2004 5:39 pm Post subject: |
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| vixie-cron also has allow/deny files. See 'man contab'. |
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