Users are unable to use crontab, it fails with error "(username) AUTH (crontab command not allowed)"
Issue
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Users are unable to use crontab, the command fails with the following error.
$ crontab -l (user1) AUTH (crontab command not allowed) -
Users are listed in /etc/cron.allow file.
# cat /etc/cron.allow user1
Environment
- Red Hat Enterprise Linux
- crontab
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