Which file holds the list of users that are NOT allowed to use cron ?

Answer: /etc/cron.d/cron.deny

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Jan 19th, 2007

1.To deny cron access the cron daemon checks if the file /etc/cron.deny exists and if it does then it checks all users listed there for whom cron access has to be denied.
2. If /etc/cron.deny does not exist and the file /etc/cron.allow exists then ONLY the users who are listed in this file are given cron access.
3. If both the files exist and if a particular user is listed in both the files then the user is given access.This is because of the reason that when the user is available in the /etc/corn.allow file, cron ignores /etc/dron.deny
Hope that suffices.
Regards,
Ravi