SCO License security - another flame

Jan-Piet Mens jpm at logixwi.uucp
Wed May 22 03:26:22 AEST 1991


sef at kithrup.COM (Sean Eric Fagan) writes:

>In article <1248 at dms.UUCP> shepperd at 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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Jan-Piet Mens, Logix GmbH				    jpm at logixwi.UUCP
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