How to prevent users from executing cron jobs

Issue :

How can users be prevented from running cron jobs?

Solution :

If you want to prevent every user on the server from executing cronjobs then put the word ‘All’ in the /etc/cron.deny file.
If you want to permit a particular user to run cronjobs then add him to /etc/cron.allow

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