Gentoo Archives: gentoo-user

From: Neil Bothwick <neil@××××××××××.uk>
To: gentoo-user@l.g.o
Subject: Re: [gentoo-user] Problem: unprivileged user cannot use /usr/bin/crontab
Date: Wed, 21 Jun 2006 14:35:47
Message-Id: 20060621152049.76364579@hactar.digimed.co.uk
In Reply to: Re: [gentoo-user] Problem: unprivileged user cannot use /usr/bin/crontab by Enrico Weigelt
1 On Wed, 21 Jun 2006 15:32:31 +0200, Enrico Weigelt wrote:
2
3 > But this is quite inconvenient, if you have dozens of users and
4 > want to allow them all to edit their crontabs.
5
6 egrep ^.*?:.*?:.*?:100: /etc/passwd | cut -d: -f1 | while read u do gpasswd -a $u cron; done
7
8 will add all users from group GID 100 (users on this system) to the cron
9 group.
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12 --
13 Neil Bothwick
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15 "Bother," said Pooh, as he was given another bad script.

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Re: [gentoo-user] Problem: unprivileged user cannot use /usr/bin/crontab "Bo Ørsted Andresen" <bo.andresen@××××.dk>