Mail Archives: cygwin/2004/01/09/16:41:11
Hi,
Thanks for the message but cron_diagnose.sh doesn't
seem to give me insight on what I'm trying to do.
I was trying to perform a hack discussed in this
thread:
http://www.cygwin.com/ml/cygwin/2003-04/msg01001.html
I am attempting to have the cron service run as
another user so that it can access network shares.
Thanks,
Alan
--- "Harig, Mark" <maharig AT idirect DOT net> wrote:
> Please try running this diagnostic script
> to see if it can help identify the cause
> of your problem:
>
>
http://sources.redhat.com/ml/cygwin/2003-12/msg00711.html
>
> > -----Original Message-----
> > From: Alan London [mailto:alondon7 AT yahoo DOT ca]
> > Sent: Thursday, January 01, 2004 11:38 PM
> > To: tgun AT bioscrypt DOT com
> > Cc: cygwin AT cygwin DOT com
> > Subject: Re: cron + network share(w/ full access?)
> >
> >
> > Hello and Happy New Year.
> >
> > Would it be possible to see your altered
> /etc/passwd?
> > I must be doing something wrong. I've made my
> user
> > have uid 18, put his entry before SYSTEM, and I
> still
> > get the same 1062 error when starting the cron
> service
> > as that user.
> >
> > I've been banging my head against the wall on the
> > cron-job-accessing-network-shares problem for a
> couple
> > days now :) I'm glad I found this thread, it's
> given
> > me some hope.
> >
> > Can anyone verify that they've got this trick/hack
> to
> > work in the current version of cygwin cron?
> >
> > Thanks in advance,
> > Alan
> >
> > ------------
> > > Right. Looks like 18 is hardwired in cron.
> > > So after you create that user and update the
> > /etc/passwd file you would need to edit
> > > /etc/password and change the uid of the user to
> 18.
> > With a little bit of luck
> > > the setuid(18) will be a noop.
> > > Try keeping the SYSTEM uid to 18, too, for now.
> It's
> > probably hardwired too.
> > > My head is spinning and I don't have the time to
> > sort through all the implications.
> >
> > ok, changing the uid to 18 in the passwd file did
> it.
> >
> > thanks a lot!
> >
> > thanks to all the Cygwin developers, it's a
> fantastic
> > tool!
> >
> > --tim
> >
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