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[Marcus Dubois <marcus@xxxxxxxx>]

I second that.

Cron tries to read /var/spool/cron/crontabs/<username> but ordinary users don't have
access to /var/spool/crontabs and it's not a good idea to chown that directory.

I'll get back to you when I have a fix.

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User lacks permission for crontab
https://bugs.launchpad.net/bugs/269265
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Status in Ubuntu Eee: New

Bug description:
8.04.1

In vanilla versions of Ubuntu, I can type "crontab -e" as a non-privileged user at a terminal and edit the schedule. In Ubuntu EEE 8.04.1, I get a "permission denied" error.