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Re: (root) AUTH (crontab command not allowed)



On Sat, Apr 14, 2007 at 10:41:16AM +0200, Kay Smarczewski wrote:
> On Fri, Apr 13, 2007 at 07:02:09PM +0200, Franck Joncourt wrote:
> > 
> > According to the manpage, root overrides the rights you put in both
> > /etc/cron.allow and /etc/cron.deny.
> > 
> > So, have you tried just to remove root from those files, and see what
> > happened ? 
> /etc/cron.deny doesn't exist. so from this file there should be no
> "danger".
> since if have removed root from cron.allow all goes the right way.
> 
> but i don't understand that fact: if i add root to cron.allow i 
> will explicitly grant executing crontab commands to root. 
> if i don't add it to the file, access for root is granted by 
> default.
> 
> so i think it should not matter if which way i go, should it?

I see your point, but it would not have come to my mind to add root to
/etc/cron.allow, or as for example, to /etc/shutdown.allow.

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