On Tue, Apr 10, 2007 at 12:46:35AM +0200, Franck Joncourt wrote: > On Tue, Apr 10, 2007 at 12:29:07AM +0200, Kay Smarczewski wrote: > > I get always the error message > > > (root) AUTH (crontab command not allowed) > > in my logs. I interpret this that root is not allowed to run crontab. > > But my cron.allow contains the root user: > > > cat /etc/cron.allow > > > root > > So root should be allowed to run crontab, shouldn't it? > > By default, /etc/cron.allow and /etc/cron.deny do not exist, and it > means all users are able to run a crontab, root as well. > > Are you sure you have to add root in /etc/cron.allow ? I believed it was > not compulsory. Ok, you are right: It works with an empty cron.allow, too.
> > The rights on the files should be ok, I think: > > > -rw-r--r-- 1 root crontab /etc/cron.allow > > > -rwxr-sr-x 1 root crontab /usr/bin/crontab > > > drwx-wx--T 2 root crontab /var/spool/cron/crontabs/ > > > > In my opinion, I get the warning since I have installed checksecurity. > > But tiger seems to work good and weekly. (I installed checksecurity at > > the same time like tiger.) > > > > I have read the manuals and searched for the problem in the net. But I > > did not found an answer. > > > > I am using cron version 3.0pl1-100 and Debian/Linux 4.0 AMD64. > > Me too, and it works fine. I do not edit /etc/crontab, but prefer adding > files to the cron directories. (/etc/cron.d, /etc/cron.hourly ...) Checksecurity also installed itself this way. But I wonder why all cron jobs work fine but this does not. Best regards Kay Smarczewski
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