Hi, I work with Daniel, so I can state, that only "guest" and "gast" are in the deny file. There is no allow file. This has to do with the permissions of /usr/bin/crontab. The problem is the reset of the permissions to -rwsr-x---. Regards, Peter -----Ursprungliche Nachricht----- Von: Kenneth Schneider [mailto:suselist@rtsx.com] Gesendet: Donnerstag, 1. April 2004 14:16 An: suse-linux-e@suse.com Betreff: Re: [SLE] cron for normal users On Thu, 2004-04-01 at 05:17, Hollweg, Daniel wrote:
Hi list!
SuSe 9.0 pro with file settings secure. I want an normal user to be able to use crontab in order put cronjobs in place. If the users tries to install a crontab using crontab -e he gets an /usr/bin/crontab permission denied. If I have a look on the file permissions this behavior is correct:
-rwsr-x--- 1 root trusted 22812 Sep 23 2003 /usr/bin/crontab
First I thought about putting the user in the group trusted but the it has the rights to execute gpasswd.
Next step I set the x-bit for other on /usr/bin/crontab. No the user can use the crontab. But when I make a reboot of the system the permission is chnaged to -rwsr-x--- automatically.
I think this is a result of the file permission safe setting in yast. But when root changes a permission I do not want the OS to undo my changes.
Any ideas? Regards Daniel
The files /var/spool/cron/allow and /var/spool/cron/deny can control who has the ability to create crontab files. Do a man crontab for further help. -- Ken Schneider unix user since 1989 linux user since 1994 SuSE user since 1998 (6.2) -- Check the headers for your unsubscription address For additional commands send e-mail to suse-linux-e-help@suse.com Also check the archives at http://lists.suse.com Please read the FAQs: suse-linux-e-faq@suse.com