How crontab validate the access ?

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Issue

  • What is role of cron.allow and cron.deny for access crontab ?
  • How existence of cron.allow and cron.deny impact on crontab access ?
  • Why user is not able to see the crontab entries after removing cron.deny file ?

Environment

  • Red Hat Enterprise Linux 5
  • Red Hat Enterprise Linux 6
  • Red Hat Enterprise Linux 7
  • cronie

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