at.allow(5)

at.allow5

Determine who can submit jobs via at or batch

Overview

The /etc/at.allow and /etc/at.deny files determine which user can submit commands for later execution via at(1) or batch(1).

The format of the files is a list of usernames, one on each line. Whitespace is not permitted.

If the file /etc/at.allow exists, only usernames mentioned in it are allowed to use at.

If /etc/at.allow does not exist, /etc/at.deny is checked, every username not mentioned in it is then allowed to use at.

An empty /etc/at.deny means that every user may use at.

If neither exists, only the superuser is allowed to use at.

Releases

15 releases since Debian 2.1 (Slink); the text changed 3 times.

  1. 2.1–3.1
  2. 4.0–5.0
  3. 6.0
  4. 7–Arch

From at 3.2.5-5 in Arch Linux 2026-11-01. Parsed by carta from the page's man source.