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From:	Achim Gratz <Stromeko AT nexgo DOT de>
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Subject:	Re: crontab message "must be privileged to use -u"
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Andrey Repin writes:
>>> I'm in an elevated shell, but it seems crontab is doing a dumb POSIX check for
>>> EUID=0.
>
>> Then wrapping it with fakesu should work (no I have not tried that).
>
> Cool idea, but I'm not up for recompiling crontab >.>
> Still, thanks for the reply.

If you care to look at the package listing you might have noticed that
there is an actual fakesu binary present that I believe does exactly
what you were asking.


Regards,
Achim.
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