How do I get my su password to setup non-user specific cron?

I have two accounts set up on my mac. I want to use cron to have each user's Documents folder copied to an external drive, regardless of whether any user is logged in.
I've set up cron jobs within each user account, but they don't run. I'm wondering whether this is due to the jobs being scheduled to run when the user may not be logged in. I'm hoping setting up a crontab entry under su will circumvent this but I can't even remember whether I setup a super user account when installing Tiger.
Thanks!

You should not and need not have a root password. Use sudo with an administrator account. (See man sudo)

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