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From: jpm@logixwi.uucp (Jan-Piet Mens)
Newsgroups: comp.unix.sysv386
Subject: Re: SCO License security - another flame
Message-ID: <1991May21.172622.5358@logixwi.uucp>
Date: 21 May 91 17:26:22 GMT
References: <1991May21.080236.20551@kithrup.COM> <1248@dms.UUCP> <1991May22.063652.26221@kithrup.COM>
Organization: Logix GmbH, Wiesbaden, W-Germany
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sef@kithrup.COM (Sean Eric Fagan) writes:

>In article <1248@dms.UUCP> shepperd@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).

>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.

	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 ;-)

	I hope that helps.

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