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Vermyndax
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 Posted: Mon Oct 25, 2004 1:01 pm Post subject: weird cron permissions problem |
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Last night I added some users to the cron group so users can edit/use crontab. This works fine.
This morning I go to set up some cron jobs as root... surprise! Permission denied!?
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raven-linux bin # crontab -l
You (root) are not allowed to use this program (crontab)
See crontab(1) for more information
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Here's the permissions on crontab:
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raven-linux bin # ls -la cron*
-rwsr-x--- 1 root cron 26128 Oct 23 11:25 crontab
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...and I have verified that root is in the proper groups. Any ideas what gives? |
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GordSki
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Joined: 18 Oct 2004
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| Posted: Mon Oct 25, 2004 1:12 pm Post subject: |
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Try creating a file called "/etc/cron.allow" and add the following line:
G.
ps. can add other users to allow them crontab access too. Make sure the file is world readable tho  |
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Vermyndax
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| Posted: Mon Oct 25, 2004 2:27 pm Post subject: har har har |
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Silly mistake of mine. That worked. I had created a cron.allow to set up the ability for users to make cron jobs and neglected to allow root. Whoops.
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