Other user's crontab (was: Re: SCO License security - another flame)

[Barnacle Wes]

In article <1248 at dms.UUCP> shepperd at dms.UUCP (Dave Shepperd) writes:
> Maybe so, but I can't get su to "work" on my Xenix, Unix and Esix systems 
> either.
> So I use root's crontab and do a su to news from there (which does work).

sef at kithrup.COM (Sean Eric Fagan) writes:
> That's pretty interesting, considering that there is nothing in xenix that
> would prevent that.
> Or are you upset because you can't have other users use crontab?
> In which case I would suggest you RTFM.  Something I would expect of any
> system administrator.

In article <1991May21.172622.5358 at logixwi.uucp>, jpm at logixwi.uucp (Jan-Piet Mens) writes:
> 	BTW, the FM says you should insert the names of all users allowed to
> 	use crontab in /usr/lib/cron/cron.allow.  1 per line ;-)

Try logging in as "news", edit a crontab, and then use the crontab
command to submit the crontab to the system for user "news".  As
mentioned above, news should be listed in /usr/lib/cron/cron.allow.
What do you mean your news account is set NoLogin?  :-)

I suspect su will work for what you want if you "su - news", unless this
is another problem with the SCO "secure su" command.  This should
certainly work under good ol' insecure :-) Esix and Interactive; it
works like a charm on my Sys V/AT.

	Wes Peters
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