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Preventing Specific User to Run CRON

Discussion in 'General Discussion' started by mohit, Aug 23, 2005.

  1. mohit

    mohit Well-Known Member

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    hi,
    any ideas, how do i prevent a specific user to be able to use cron, he sends a lots of mail using a php script to his users who haven't logged into his matrimony site.

    Also is there any way to prevent his mysql scripts cause high memory loads ?

    Thanx in advance.
    mohit
     
    #1 mohit, Aug 23, 2005
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    You can remove crontab and mysql from the feature list assigned to this account.
     
    #2 nickb, Aug 23, 2005
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    Blocking crontab use depends on your OS as different ones use different cron daemons. On most Linux distributions vixie cron is used and you can use /etc/cron.deny and /etc/cron.allow files (man crontab for details).
     
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