need to provide access to users for crontab, mailx

[bunty.....]

Hi friends,
I have admin access to manage the crontab & mailx,
some of users need to use the application of crontab & mailx.
how i will give permission to them to use the crontab/mailx application.

please suggest
bunty

[Ivan Ferreira]

The /etc/cron.allow file allows the use of crontab. If the user is listed in /etc/cron.allow, then the user is allowed to use crontab.

For mailx, I don't know of any restrictions to use.

[bunty.....]

#pwd
/etc
#ll cro*
lr-xr-xr-t 1 root sys 14 Apr 21 2005 cron -> /usr/sbin/cron


no cron.allow file there

[Lolupee]

it should be /var/adm/cron/cron.allow

all users should be able to send mailx

[bunty.....]

i think, this file is some other directory i.e. /var/adm/cron/cron.allow

[Deoncia Grayson_1]

You can give users access to cron in:

/var/adm/cron/cron.allow

just add the user login name.

Anyone with a user id on the server can use mailx as long as it belongs their user id.

[OldSchool]

From "man crontab" on HP-UX 11.0:

You can execute crontab if your name appears in the file
/usr/lib/cron/cron.allow.

If that file does not exist, you can use crontab if your name does not appear in the file /usr/lib/cron/cron.deny.

If only cron.deny exists and is empty, all users can use crontab.

If neither file exists, only the root user can use crontab. The allow/deny files consist of one user name per line.

[Geoff Wild · Accepted solution]

Yes - it is /var/adm/cron/cron.allow

man crontab
will give you some nice info.

mailx is in /usr/bin - so all users have access.

Just add the users to /var/adm/cron/cron.allow

# cat /var/adm/cron/cron.allow
root
adm
uucp
user1
user2

Rgds...Geoff

[Ivan Ferreira]

Sorry, another file location confusion. Linux/Tru have /etc/cron.*, HP-UX uses /var/adm/cron.*

[Arturo Galbiati]

Hi,
no restriction to use mailx but take care that the user type elm once in own fome directory.
To allow the sue of crontab add the user in teh file /var/adm/cron/cron.allow.

From man crontab:

FILES
/var/adm/cron Main cron directory
/var/adm/cron/cron.allow List of allowed users
/var/adm/cron/cron.deny List of denied users
/var/adm/cron/log Accounting information
/var/spool/cron/crontabs Directory containing the crontab files

HTH,
Art