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Re: Problem w/ cron


Jeremy A Redburn wrote:
> 
> Sorry, I'm a little frazzled this morning, here are the relevant portions
> of /etc/passwd:
> 
> SYSTEM:*:18:18:,S-1-5-18::
> Administrators:*:544:544:,S-1-5-32-544::
> Administrator:unused_by_nt/2000/xp:500:513:U-IBM-VNYWG3WG0KP\Administrator,S-1-5-21-1844237615-1563985344-1060284298-500:/cygdrive/c/Documents
> and Settings/Administrator.IBM-NMR31UMZNAJ:/bin/bash
> 
> and /etc/group:
> 
> SYSTEM:S-1-5-18:18:
> None:S-1-5-21-1844237615-1563985344-1060284298-513:513:
> Administrators:S-1-5-32-544:544:

OK, thanks, but you are not answering my question about ls -ln and not
following http://cygwin.com/problems.html
Also, did you try Brian Ford's suggestion?

The snippet of /etc/passwd shows that Administrator on U-IBM-VNYWG3WG0KP
has a directory Administrator.IBM-NMR31UMZNAJ 
Your installation seems a little unusual...
Could there be several users named Administrator on your network?
Do you login in Windows as U-IBM-VNYWG3WG0KP\Administrator?

Pierre
  

> Jeremy
> 
> On Wed, 22 Oct 2003, Pierre A. Humblet wrote:
> 
> > Jeremy A Redburn wrote:
> > >
> > > Hi there,
> > >
> > > I am having permissions trouble with the latest cron on Cygwin. I am
> > > running WindowsXP and have an ssh identity file owned by me:
> > >
> > > -rw-------    1 Administ None          672 Oct 22 16:15 identity
> >
> > It's not clear if the owner is Administrator or Administrators.
> > Try ls -ln
> >
> > > The problem is that I do not seem to have read access to this file when
> > > running a command under Administrator's crontab. Right now, I have:
> > >
> > > * * * * * /usr/bin/cat /tmp/identity > /tmp/identity2 2>&1
> > >
> > > But /tmp/identity2 is just:
> > > /usr/bin/cat: /tmp/identity: Permission denied
> > >
> > > When I run the command from the shell, it works fine. I have run `id` from
> > > the shell and from cron and there is a minor difference:
> > >
> > > uid=500(Administrator) gid=513(None) groups=544(Administrators),545(Users)
> > > uid=500(Administrator) gid=513(None) groups=513(None),545(Users)
> >
> > That's a big difference, and it's abnormal.
> > Some name aliasing might be taking place.
> > What does fgrep Administrator /etc/passwd give? You will need to provide
> > more details, see http://cygwin.com/problems.html
> >
> > The workaround suggested by Brian Ford might work, but there is still
> > an underlying problem.
> >
> > Pierre
> >

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