Re: Problem with cron.allow

In news:f416pb$emv$1@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx,
fabrice <emouchet@xxxxxxxx> wrote:

I would like to restrict acces to the crontab sytem only for root.
I m working with a debian sarge.
So i have created the /etc/cron.allow file with root inside.
But it seems not to work, because each user can still create cron
table.

have i missed something ?

Does cron.deny exist? If so, remove it. Did you restart the cron daemon?
.

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