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HI,

I am using centos 6 and finding difficultly in doing 2 below things.

1. i have a user praveen i want to allow him to create cron job of his own. so i have added his user id in cron.allow but still it is not allowing him to edit(even if i have created praveen from root user) or create his cron file name praveen. i have attached the screen shot for the same.

2. i have using mysql and have a database Learning. i want to give access to any user to connect to the same without using root login. how can this be done.

Thanks
PKS

you cannot because I suppose the file called praveen belongs to root no? and is in Hmm I have no Centos, but usually would be found in /var/spool/cron/crontabs...
for praveen to edit that file he has only to do

Code:

crontab -e

Othewise he writes a crontab file in his home directory and loads it using

Code:

crontab mycronfile

looking at your attachment, I wonder what is to be found in praveen's crontab file...
Do a

Code:

crontab -l

and show us its content and the perms on /var/spool/cron/crontabs directory and its content
Then I remember some OS are strict on applying the rules and so you have to include root also...
What are the perms on /etc/cron.allow?
For Q 2 you have to open another thread as it has nothing to do with this problematic...

Possible the crontab/default editor is pointing to nowhere?

Hi,

I was making a mistake just by giving * * * * * and no the script path which i have to run......not i have added it and it's fixed.

THANKS Everyone.