crontab

[Paul Bertino]

I have setupa user in cron.allow and there is nor cron.deny. Still not auth to use crontab -e

[James R. Ferguson]

Hi Paul:

What error do you get when you do this?

Doing 'crontab -e' invokes an editor ('vi') against a temporary file in '/var/tmp' to build your crontab file if there is none to edit.

Regards!

...JRF...

[Paul Bertino]

crontab: you are not authorized to use cron. Sorry.
test01@hellcat:/home/test01>

[rleon]

to user id has to be in /var/adm/cron/cron.allow

[Paul Bertino]

The user id is in the cron.allow.

[Dennis Handly]

>The user id is in the cron.allow.

I tried adding trailing spaces and crontab still worked.
We would need to see more info:
id
vis /var/adm/cron/cron.allow

[Robert-Jan Goossens_1]

try bouncing the cron daemon.

# /sbin/init.d/cron stop
# /sbin/init.d/cron start

# su - test01
# crontab -e

Regards,
Robert-Jan

[Jeff_Traigle]

Also make sure the permissions on /usr/bin/crontab have not been altered. I've run into this error on SLES 10 when Bastille removed world read and execute.

-r-sr-xr-x 1 root bin 79468 Feb 15 2007 /usr/bin/crontab

[Paul Bertino]

Thanks for your help. I still have the issue and I have tried everything you all have suggested.

[T G Manikandan]

You say you dont have cron.deny file, Can you also remove cron.allow file and try.

Thanks.

[Paul Bertino]

I have deleted the cron.allow. Tried the test user test01, no luck. Thanks

[T G Manikandan · Accepted solution]

can you check if that user exists with /etc/passwd file

cat /etc/passwd|grep
and also check if there are any duplicate UID in the file.

Also try,

creating a crontab file for the user and try
/var/spool/cron/crontabs/ with the file owner as test01.

[T G Manikandan]

which are your cron.allow and cron.deny files located?

[Paul Bertino]

Well, the real cron.allow stand up. There are two locations on our system,
/var/spool/cron
and
/var/adm/cron = this is the correct one!

Sorry for the confusion and thanks to all of you for your help! It does work now!

[Paul Bertino]

Thanks. I have the answer and it is working.