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



On Sun, Apr 15, 2007 at 11:06:41AM +0200, Franck Joncourt wrote:
> 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.
Ok.

I get still the messages. But it seems from an weekly executed command.
Isn't there a way to see which command is not allowed to run?

Best regards

Kay

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