Re: [gentoo-user] Problem: unprivileged user cannot use /usr/bin/crontab

[Bo Ørsted Andresen]

On Wednesday 21 June 2006 16:20, Neil Bothwick wrote:
> egrep ^.*?:.*?:.*?:100: /etc/passwd | cut -d: -f1 | while read u do gpasswd
> -a $u cron; done
>
> will add all users from group GID 100 (users on this system) to the cron
> group.

Well...

awk -F: "\$4~/^\
`awk -F: '$1~/^users$/{print $3}' < /etc/group`\
\$/{print \$1}" < /etc/passwd | \
while read user; do
	gpasswd -a "$user" cron
done

;)

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Bo Andresen