[plug] Crontab Permissions

[Martin]

$quoted_author = "Timothy White" ;
> 
> On my server (also a 'default' ubuntu install) the only user that can
> change crontabs is root.
> $ crontab -e
> crontabs/tim: Permission denied
>
> Nether had cron.allow or cron.deny. The perms on
> /var/spool/cron/crontabs was the same.

can you show us the output of 'ls -l /var/spool/cron/crontabs' ?

cheers
marty

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