Users can edit their own crontabs. You can set for them some GUI
editor trough variable for crontab and prepare some icon on desktop or
something similar. But if you want for them to be able to edit root
crontab then reactions of other people here are valid.

PS: I'm curious why non-sysadmin aka normal user need in these times
edit crontab as more then 95% of normal users is not able to eg. work
with directories/files in file manager. I'm relatively young but I
know that use of crontab and similar CLI stuff was standard in 70's or
80's for secretaries, people from academy area and similar.

On Fri, Feb 19, 2010 at 8:32 PM, L. V. Lammert <lvl@omnitec.net> wrote:
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> On Fri, 19 Feb 2010, Johan Beisser wrote:
>
>> On Fri, Feb 19, 2010 at 8:21 AM, L. V. Lammert <lvl@omnitec.net> wrote:
>>
>> > No, that isn't going to work. This isn't some elitist club - if we can't
>> > provide a simple, sane, safe way for a [priviledged] user to push a
backup
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>> > image out to a DR server, than *we* have failed as technologists.
>>
>> Wait.
>>
>> What the hell is so hard about:
>>
> If you have to ask what's so hard, it's too hard. The OP was about making
> the process **SIMPLE**, .. not complicated. Man pages are used to learn
> about a command, .. not a way to perform a specific command such as
> "change the replicatio0 schedule to start at 8PM instead of 6PM".
>
>> B While lines in a user crontab have five fixed fields plus a command
>> in the form:
>>
>> B  B  B  B  B  B minute hour day-of-month month day-of-week command
>> B [...]
>>
> Yeah right. That isn't SIMPLE by any definition.
>
>> Being a UNIX Systems Admin means knowing your tools, and most
>> importantly your toolkits. Cron is a tool, making it "simpler" for a
>> new admin is doing you both a disservice in the long run.
>>
> The question was about a way to provide a way to change a crontab entry
> for ***NON SYS ADMINS***.
>
> B  B  B  B Lee