crontab Commands Fails in Linux: You (%s) are not allowed to use this program (crontab)

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Error Description:

crontab –e, crontab –l commands are failing with following error.

$ crontab -l

You (brmsftp) are not allowed to use this program (crontab)

See crontab(1) for more information

$ crontab -e

You (brmsftp) are not allowed to use this program (crontab)

See crontab(1) for more information

Solution Description:

There are 2 files located in /etc directory. Those are cron.deny and cron.allow. To enable the crontab for a particular user, you have to add the particular UNIX username in cron.allow file. To disable the crontab for a user, you need to add the username in the cron.deny file.

These files are owned by root and the modification needs to be done by the root user only.

Note: if you add the username in both cron.deny and cron.allow files, it will consider the allow option only.

File names are.

# ls -ltr cron.*

-rw-r--r-- 1 root root    0 May  6  2011 cron.deny

-rw-r--r-- 1 root root   38 Dec 17 21:56 cron.allow

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