Re: cron.allow and cron.deny

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Steve Berg wrote:
El Lunes, 11 de Septiembre de 2006 18:35, Bill Tangren escribió:
Only root should have access to cron. Otherwise, anyone gaining access to
the
system could schedule a damaging process to run at any time.

If that were true then the user could run the damaging process anytime
they wished since cron will execute a user's crontab with that user's
permissions.  On systems I work with cron is available to any user on a
fresh install.

True. Which is why I asked which "system accounts" needed access to cron.

Thanks for the reply.




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