cron.allow and cron.deny
Bill Tangren
bjt at aa.usno.navy.mil
Mon Sep 11 17:22:07 UTC 2006
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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