Comments on: How to Run PHP Script as Normal User with Cron

By: Aaron Kili

Aaron Kili — Wed, 23 Aug 2017 08:48:10 +0000

In reply to Chris G.

@Chris

Personally, this is a great source of encouragement, thanks a lot.

By: Aaron Kili

Aaron Kili — Wed, 23 Aug 2017 08:46:33 +0000

In reply to Chris G.

@Chris

Sure, we will always do our best to produce top quality and free articles for Linux users out there. Many thanks for the kind words of appreciation and for always following us.

By: Chris G

Chris G — Tue, 22 Aug 2017 17:08:52 +0000

In reply to Aaron Kili.

We are saying the same thing. Sorry I wasn’t clear. Anyway, I can see that there may be times I would need to do this so it’s reason enough to bookmark this article. I hope you keep writing articles, Aaron.

Thanks for creating this one and responding to my question :-)

By: Aaron Kili

Aaron Kili — Mon, 21 Aug 2017 17:30:02 +0000

In reply to Chris G.

@Chris

Another possible reason is a user can change their own crontab file and possibly modify an entry saved by root.

By: Chris G

Chris G — Wed, 16 Aug 2017 20:25:34 +0000

As a sysadmin, is there an advantage to doing this over placing the command in the user's crontab like this?

crontab -eu tecmint

Actually I just thought of one. The tecmint user can't change root's crontab so they can't change your entry. Are there any other reasons?