Bug 134089 – crontab -e is broken

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Bug 134089 - crontab -e is broken

Summary:	crontab -e is broken

Status:	CLOSED RAWHIDE

Aliases:	None

Product:	Fedora
Classification:	Fedora
Component:	vixie-cron (Show other bugs)
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Version:	3
Hardware:	All Linux

Priority	medium Severity medium
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Assigned To:	Jason Vas Dias
QA Contact:	Brock Organ
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Duplicates:	137326 (view as bug list)
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Reported:	2004-09-29 11:51 EDT by Ed Friedman
Modified:	2007-11-30 17:10 EST (History)
CC List:	1 user (show)

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Last Closed:	2004-09-29 12:10:05 EDT
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Description Ed Friedman 2004-09-29 11:51:58 EDT

Description of problem:
crontab -e does not work

Version-Release number of selected component (if applicable):
vixie-cron-4.1-11

How reproducible:
Always

Steps to Reproduce:
1.As any user, type:    crontab -e
2.or, as root, type:    crontab -u username -e
3.
  
Actual results:
You (ed) are not allowed to use this program (crontab)
See crontab(1) for more information


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Comment 1 Jason Vas Dias 2004-09-29 12:10:05 EDT

Unfortunately, the new CVS migration resulted in some fixes 
being dropped, which causes this problem.
This is now fixed in vixie-cron-4.1-16:
1. If neither /etc/cron.{allow,deny} exist, 
   ONLY root may use crontab (and now may do so!)

2. If no /etc/cron.{allow,deny} exist when the package
   is installed, the %post script will create an
   empty /etc/cron.deny file, thus allowing all users
   by default, the way the old cron used to work.

Comment 2 Jason Vas Dias 2004-10-27 12:35:15 EDT

*** Bug 137326 has been marked as a duplicate of this bug. ***

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