Il 16:20, giovedì 18 ottobre 2001, Mads Martin Joergensen ha scritto:

* Praise [Oct 18. 2001 16:17]:

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Hi List,

I have a simple shell service for my friends, and they would need some programs to be started at 2pm. As root, I know how to do that, but I would like they could use crontab by theirselves. All I got is a "permission denied" when I try to use crontab. Is it just safe to modify permission to crontab? Am I not leaving the door opened? Or this isn't the right way to do this?

As the user the command 'crontab -e' should do it.

No:-( praise@main:~ > crontab -e bash: /usr/bin/crontab: Permission denied I have read something about allow and deny files. Where are them? Praise

On October 18, 2001 10:20 am, Mads Martin Joergensen wrote:

* Praise [Oct 18. 2001 16:17]:

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Hi List,

I have a simple shell service for my friends, and they would need some programs to be started at 2pm. As root, I know how to do that, but I would like they could use crontab by theirselves. All I got is a "permission denied" when I try to use crontab. Is it just safe to modify permission to crontab? Am I not leaving the door opened? Or this isn't the right way to do this?

As the user the command 'crontab -e' should do it.

On my system it looks like you need to be in the trusted group to run crontab. Nick

Il 18:00, giovedì 18 ottobre 2001, Cliff Sarginson ha scritto:

On Thu, Oct 18, 2001 at 10:41:26AM -0400, Nick Zentena wrote:

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On October 18, 2001 10:20 am, Mads Martin Joergensen wrote:

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* Praise [Oct 18. 2001 16:17]:

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Hi List,

I have a simple shell service for my friends, and they would need some programs to be started at 2pm. As root, I know how to do that, but I would like they could use crontab by theirselves. All I got is a "permission denied" when I try to use crontab. Is it just safe to modify permission to crontab? Am I not leaving the door opened? Or this isn't the right way to do this?

As the user the command 'crontab -e' should do it.

Put their login names in /var/spool/cron/allow.

I have found the problem: those users must be of the "trusted" group. Praise