Is the cron job always running root?
 

Can it be configured to a non-root user?

Root's crontab runs as root, a user's crontab runs as that user.

You should always take care if you run it as root, it´s better to run it as user if possible.

Regards

Peter

Hi

here you have a nice Cron Examples
and
another examples

This is a Cron guide.

On side note, get answer with man crontab in a few seconds ;)