Weekend Learning: Allowing access to crontab with non-root user

In our environment we have non-root user accounts that can list and modify the crontab entry, and while I never knew the how behind it, today I know after reading My Oracle Support article "How To Allow Only Specific Non-root User(s) to Use Crontab" from document ID 2002877.1 which may help you modify your setup to use specific power user accounts that do not need root access to the OS.