On Tue, Apr 10, 2007 at 12:29:07AM +0200, Kay Smarczewski wrote: > Hello, Hi, > I get always the error message > > (root) AUTH (crontab command not allowed) > in my logs. I interpret this that root is not allowed to run crontab. > But my cron.allow contains the root user: > > cat /etc/cron.allow > > root > So root should be allowed to run crontab, shouldn't it? By default, /etc/cron.allow and /etc/cron.deny do not exist, and it means all users are able to run a crontab, root as well. Are you sure you have to add root in /etc/cron.allow ? I believed it was not compulsory. > The rights on the files should be ok, I think: > > -rw-r--r-- 1 root crontab /etc/cron.allow > > -rwxr-sr-x 1 root crontab /usr/bin/crontab > > drwx-wx--T 2 root crontab /var/spool/cron/crontabs/ > > In my opinion, I get the warning since I have installed checksecurity. > But tiger seems to work good and weekly. (I installed checksecurity at > the same time like tiger.) > > I have read the manuals and searched for the problem in the net. But I > did not found an answer. > > I am using cron version 3.0pl1-100 and Debian/Linux 4.0 AMD64. Me too, and it works fine. I do not edit /etc/crontab, but prefer adding files to the cron directories. (/etc/cron.d, /etc/cron.hourly ...) Hope it helps. -- Franck Joncourt http://www.debian.org http://smhteam.info/wiki/ GPG server : pgpkeys.mit.edu Fingerprint : C10E D1D0 EF70 0A2A CACF 9A3C C490 534E 75C0 89FE
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