at command

[Indrajit Bhagat]

Few of the user wants to get at command access.
I added the user name in /var/adm/cron/at.allow file. Also there is not at.deny file.

After adding the user to at.allow file, still the user is not able to excute the at command.

Following error the user is getting.

abcd:/home/sameer>at -l
at: you are not authorized to use at. Sorry.
abcd:/home/sameer>

[Pete Randall]

The man page says the file is /usr/lib/cron/at.allow, not /var/adm/cron/at.allow. Try that and see if it makes a difference.


Pete

[Pete Randall]

Hmmm, maybe I should have looked first - /usr/lib/cron is just a link to /var/adm/cron so it shouldn't make any difference.

On the one server that I allow users to use at, I have an at.deny file with one bogus name in it, allowing anyone else to use at.


Pete

[James R. Ferguson · Accepted solution]

Hi:

'/usr/lib/cron' is a symbolic link to '/var/adm/cron' so that matters not.

Make sure that the 'at.allow' file has read permissions (444) to everyone!

Regards!

...JRF...

[Indrajit Bhagat]

Ya the problem get resolved.

It was due to permission issue, the file permission of at.allow changed to chmod 644 at.allow.


Thanks to all of you.