[Courses] [Linux commands]: /etc/crontab, crontab

[olearyck at slu.edu]

On Monday 09 February 2004 08:24 pm, olearyck at SLU.EDU wrote:
> On Monday 09 February 2004 06:50 pm, Carla Schroder wrote:
> > On Monday 09 February 2004 11:44 am, Christine Bussman wrote:
> > > My system is set up by default so that only root can set
> > > up a cron job  (trying to execute crontab -l as another
> > > user gives a permission denied error).  Is this a security
> > > feature, and if so, what are the risks of disabling it?
> > > (i.e.
> > > using chmod on /usr/bin/crontab)
> >
> > It's supposed to be this way, ordinary users are not supposed to have
> > power over other users. Users can create/edit only their own crontabs,
> > only root has power over all. You can mess with it, it's your system. :)
>
> I'm saying that as my normal user I can't even create or edit a cron job at
> all.  Even adding my user to the 'cron' group doesn't change this.  This is
> probably just a feature of gentoo because it tends to be very security
> consious by default.
OK, I was being silly.  I had to add my user to the cron group and then log 
back in.  Now I can create my own cron jobs.  

Christine