Bug 185966

Summary:	User need to be in group crontab if using vixie-cron
Product:	[OLD] Docs on www.gentoo.org	Reporter:	Charles Clément <caratorn>
Component:	Other documents	Assignee:	Docs Team <docs-team>
Status:	RESOLVED INVALID
Severity:	normal
Priority:	High
Version:	unspecified
Hardware:	All
OS:	Linux
URL:	http://www.gentoo.org/doc/en/cron-guide.xml
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Package list:		Runtime testing required:	---

Description Charles Clément 2007-07-20 09:20:46 UTC

I have installed vixie-cron on my machine and followed the cron guide. But, adding my normal user to the cron group wasn't enough. vixie-cron creates a crontab group too and set the /var/spool/cron/crontabs directory only writable to user in the crontab group.
Knowing that the user have to be in the cron group to access /var/spoo/cron.

Reproducible: Always

Steps to Reproduce:
1.Follow the guide
2.Launch crontab
3.

Actual Results:  
Impossible to edit user crontab

Expected Results:  
The user should be allowed to edit it.

Comment 1 nm (RETIRED) gentoo-dev

2007-07-20 09:24:42 UTC

Read the guide again:

"If you chose Vixie cron, you'll probably just want to edit /etc/cron.allow"

put your user in that file to allow him to use vixie-cron properly.