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Re: cron + network share(w/ full access?)
Corinna Vinschen wrote:
>
> Well, it's the way cron works. Started from a privileged account
> and then it changes user context to the owner of the crontab files
> to start the applications. And for cron it is known (and documented
> in /usr/doc/Cygwin/cron.README) that it should be started under SYSTEM.
Right, what you did is very natural.
However I am not sure that the initial setuid(18) in main.c is helpful
at all on Cygwin. Removing it (as you already did in crontab.c) would allow:
1) Straight operation on Win9X
2) Running as a non-privileged user (for a single user) as the originator
of this thread wanted to do, to access shared drive.
> What's that problem with mkpasswd? The system account is created already
> since October 2001.
Yes on NT, but never on Win9X.
> Anyway, I can change cron if it makes people happy...
Thanks Corinna.
>From recent threads it looks like that would make people happy :)
Pierre
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