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From: jun@fox.fax.iwa.fujixerox.co.jp (Junichi Kurokawa)
Newsgroups: comp.security.unix,comp.os.386bsd.questions
Subject: [FreeBSD] need `root' in allow?
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Date: 08 Dec 1994 00:40:56 GMT
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Experts,

Do you really need `root' in /var/cron/allow?

My understainding is that `root' is the legitimately privileged user for 
executing cron jobs in most circumstances, therefore putting `root' as
an entry in the `allow' file along with other general users is kind of
bogus business.

Your comments, especially working experiences, desperately wanted.
Thanks in advance.

Cheers,
junichi
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Junichi Kurokawa
Image and Printing System Products Development Center
Fuji Xerox Co., Ltd.