'at' authorisation 1

[columb]

I'm having problems with 'at' on AIX 5.1 ML9. I have made sure that there are neither /var/adm/cron/at.allow or /var/adm/cron/at.deny but whenever a non root user tries to use at they get the message

at: you are not authorized to use at.  Sorry.

I've tried creating an at.allow and that makes no difference and I've checked lsuser and the test user has daemon=yes set.

Any ideas anybody?

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Columb Healy

 

[p5wizard]

What if:

1) remove at.allow
2) create an empty at.deny
3) restart cron


HTH,

p5wizard

 

[foobar13]

The manpage for at on my AIX 5200-09-03 system says:

A user cannot use the at command if one of the following is true:

o The at.allow file and the at.deny file do not exist (allows root user only).
o The at.allow file exists but the user's login name is not listed in it.
o The at.deny file exists and the user's login name is listed in it.

Have you tried using an empty at.deny file?

 

[columb]

Ok, I've created an empty at.deny, restarted cron and that doesn't help. For completeness

root@hostname:/var/adm/cron#ls -l
total 173588
-rw-r-----   1 root     system            0 14 May 14:49 at.deny
-rw-r--r--   1 root     system           34 14 May 13:59 cron.allow
-rw-r-----   1 root     system            3 15 Jul 2003  cron.deny
prw-------   1 root     cron              0 14 May 14:21 FIFO
-rw-r--r--   1 root     cron       59876215 14 May 14:49 log
-rw-rw-r--   1 root     system     28994931 17 Mar 15:17 log1.gz
-rw-r--r--   1 root     system          899 15 Jul 2003  queuedefs

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Columb Healy

 

[khalidaaa]

Would that in any way help?

http://www.unix.com/showthread.php?t=17239

Regards,
Khalid

 

[columb]

Cracked it (at last!)

For anyone who's interested the problem was permissions on /var/adm/cron which should be

ls -ld /var/adm/cron
dr-xr-x---   2 bin      cron            512 16 May 15:27 /var/adm/cron

Somehow it had become owned by root:system.

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Columb Healy

 

[KenCunningham]

Columb, a star for posting the solution.

I want to be good, is that not enough?