cron for users

[Tarek]

Hi,
how can i enable some users to use the "cron"?
Thanks

[Robin Wakefield · Accepted solution]

Put the users' names in /var/adm/cron/cron.allow

Robin.

[Rainer von Bongartz]

Put them in /var/adm/cron/cron.allow

Regards
rainer

[Michael Tully]

Hi,

Any user can use 'cron' if you allow them the facility of doing so. You need to add their userid to the /var/spool/cron/cron.allow file

HTH
-Michael

[Praveen Bezawada]

Put the name of user in /var/adm/cron/cron.allow

and to set the cron for the user... login in as the user and edit the crontab file of the user using
crontab -e

PRB...

[Magdi KAMAL]

Hi Tarek,

I confirm, so late ...

Put the users' names that you want to allow scheduling cron jobs in /var/adm/cron/cron.allow

Magdi

[Philip P. Hartl]

I offer this caution however, allowing others to submit jobs to be run at future times constitutes a security risk. Check with your auditors to be sure you are not violating auditing strictures. I work for a bank and would recieve a major finding should I allow this.

[Thomas Yake]

P.S. make sure the users understand that their cron proccesses will have limited shells. Therefore they will need to write statements that establish a sufficient shell within their script (e.g. PATH, ORACLE_INSTANCE, ...)