How to Deny crontab Command Access

1. Become superuser or assume an equivalent role.

   Roles contain authorizations and privileged commands. For more information about roles, see Configuring RBAC (Task Map) in System Administration Guide: Security Services.

2. Edit the /etc/cron.d/cron.deny file and add user names, one user per line. Include users who will be denied access to the crontab commands.

   daemon bin smtp nuucp listen nobody noaccess username1 username2 username3 . . .

3. Verify that the /etc/cron.d/cron.deny file contains the new entries.

   # cat /etc/cron.d/cron.deny daemon bin nuucp listen nobody noaccess