From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 Received: from lists.gentoo.org ([140.105.134.102] helo=robin.gentoo.org) by nuthatch.gentoo.org with esmtp (Exim 4.62) (envelope-from ) id 1HDuFK-0005Vu-RV for garchives@archives.gentoo.org; Mon, 05 Feb 2007 03:10:23 +0000 Received: from robin.gentoo.org (localhost [127.0.0.1]) by robin.gentoo.org (8.13.8/8.13.8) with SMTP id l1538cQB003875; Mon, 5 Feb 2007 03:08:38 GMT Received: from py-out-1112.google.com (py-out-1112.google.com [64.233.166.178]) by robin.gentoo.org (8.13.8/8.13.8) with ESMTP id l1531hfq027347 for ; Mon, 5 Feb 2007 03:01:44 GMT Received: by py-out-1112.google.com with SMTP id a29so749110pyi for ; Sun, 04 Feb 2007 19:01:43 -0800 (PST) DomainKey-Signature: a=rsa-sha1; c=nofws; d=gmail.com; s=beta; h=received:from:to:subject:date:user-agent:references:in-reply-to:mime-version:content-type:content-transfer-encoding:content-disposition:message-id; b=Cmr21pO0hWQNaFtFsCWBn+PpYy5yKxldimyeFEI5hzcPWOj6WKvNYaXDbV36WB6cfM/IdexZY/yDejcIQ5UCmt8Y9GDj+LP5xc3OZ7luplheyxPEONdoTiMUr3KsHDu9X3lPzk5I3fEjW3mfdtoLFOus7/jMxtiM8uLwHuIF3hc= Received: by 10.35.69.11 with SMTP id w11mr12725307pyk.1170644502722; Sun, 04 Feb 2007 19:01:42 -0800 (PST) Received: from ymir.donotfeedtheray.com ( [124.243.156.119]) by mx.google.com with ESMTP id n63sm8616709pyh.2007.02.04.19.01.40; Sun, 04 Feb 2007 19:01:42 -0800 (PST) From: Raymond Lewis Rebbeck To: gentoo-user@lists.gentoo.org Subject: Re: [gentoo-user] User no edit crontab Date: Mon, 5 Feb 2007 13:31:33 +1030 User-Agent: KMail/1.9.5 References: <877iuxs4fj.fsf@newsguy.com> In-Reply-To: <877iuxs4fj.fsf@newsguy.com> Precedence: bulk List-Post: List-Help: List-Unsubscribe: List-Subscribe: List-Id: Gentoo Linux mail X-BeenThere: gentoo-user@gentoo.org Reply-to: gentoo-user@lists.gentoo.org MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset="iso-8859-1" Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit Content-Disposition: inline Message-Id: <200702051331.33764.dystopianray@gmail.com> X-Archives-Salt: c90553e3-c1f5-4471-92e1-ea8b04198204 X-Archives-Hash: c7d593359c29c84c4a309a5456992454 On Monday, 5 February 2007 13:20, reader@newsguy.com wrote: > As I recall, if admin leaves a blank /etc/cron.deny and no > /etc/cron.allow then all users will have access to cron. > > That isn't working for me in one isolated case (a gentoo install > inside a windows vm). > > What else can cause this behavior? > I've looked at permissions on /var/spool/cron, subdir, and files. > They match my other installations where users can access cron. > > I use the tried and true vixie-cron. Are your users in the 'cron' group? -- Raymond Lewis Rebbeck -- gentoo-user@gentoo.org mailing list