Hi. On Wed, Nov 01, 2017 at 10:00:27AM +0100, Jochen Spieker wrote: > deloptes: > > > > Indeed, thanks for the hint, however OP wanted to edit crontab, which needs > > root access. > > 'crontab -e' works for all users.
A more correct way to put it is 'crontab utilizes root access'. $ ls -al /usr/bin/crontab -rwxr-sr-x 1 root crontab 34936 May 3 2015 /usr/bin/crontab So, anyone can run crontab, that's true. Does not change the fact that crontab runs as root. Reco
