[Tfug] AT on Suse 10.1

Felix Tilley fetilley at earthlink.net
Sat Nov 18 13:40:36 MST 2006


Per your advice, I modified /etc/at.deny and /etc/st.allow. It works 
well. I am the old guy at Bentley's with the bad leg and a cane. Thank 
you very much. 
=================================================================== 
Quoting Felix Tilley <fetilley at earthlink.net>:

> > To execute "at" on SUSE 10.1, it appears you have to be a member of the
> > wheel group.  Being a member of the AT group does not seem to count.
> >
> > Can anyone using SUSE 10.1 confirm this?


I don't think it is based on group, it is based on user.

Per the 'at' man page:

        The superuser may use these commands in any  case.   For  other
users,  permission  to  use  at  is  determined  by the files
/etc/at.allow and /etc/at.deny.

        If the file /etc/at.allow exists, only usernames mentioned  in
it  are allowed to use at.

        If  /etc/at.allow  does not exist, /etc/at.deny is checked, every
user? name not mentioned in it is then allowed to use at.

        If neither exists, only the superuser is allowed use of at.

        An empty /etc/at.deny means that every user is allowed use  these
  comands, this is the default configuration.


Brian






More information about the tfug mailing list