Re: Change in cron policy?
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Stefan Bellon wrote:
> Since one week I wasn't able to use crontab by my user accounts. The
> message is
>
> sbellon@io:~$ crontab -l
> You (sbellon) are not allowed to use this program (crontab)
> See crontab(1) for more information
>
> The man page states, that when neither cron.allow nor cron.deny are
> present, then the site-default of Debian is taken, which is to allow
> all users the usage of cron.
>
> I haven't knowingly changed anything on my system (apart from the usual
> apt-get upgrades) and so wonder why there is a change in behaviour now.
>
> The permissions of /usr/bin/crontab seem all right (root:crontab and
> -rwxr-sr-x) as do the permissions of the actual files in
> /var/spool/cron/crontabs (user:crontab and 600).
>
> I was able to get the users using cron again by touching an empty
> cron.deny file, but I'm still wondering ...
>
> The system is Debian unstable, btw.
I also use Sid, but am still able to use crontab.
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Ron Johnson, Jr.
Jefferson LA USA
Is "common sense" really valid?
For example, it is "common sense" to white-power racists that
whites are superior to blacks, and that those with brown skins
are mud people.
However, that "common sense" is obviously wrong.
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