Topic: Privileged user?

[Old Lodge Skins]

Hi all,

I'm currently writing a PHP application that needs to add a cron job... As I don't want to do this as admin, I created the file /etc/cron.allow and added the name of a normal user in it. But when Itry to manually (through an SSH session) add a cron job as this user I get this:

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bash-3.00$ crontab -u seb cront.cron
must be privileged to use -u
So obviously it won't work from my PHP app either.


So I have a couple of questions:

* How do I make a user privileged? (on the latest 7.2)
* Is there any security risk to do so? If yes is there any other way to add a cron job?

Thanks,

Seb.

[Old Lodge Skins]

Ok I've found a way to do it without using -u... I added the user www in /etc/cron.allow and in my PHP script I run crontab without putting a user; It works fine. Is there any security risk in doing so?

Seb.