Mailing-List: contact cygwin-help@cygwin.com; run by ezmlm List-Subscribe: List-Archive: List-Post: List-Help: , Sender: cygwin-owner@cygwin.com Mail-Followup-To: cygwin@cygwin.com Delivered-To: mailing list cygwin@cygwin.com Date: Fri, 11 Apr 2003 13:30:24 -0400 From: "Pierre A. Humblet" To: cygwin@cygwin.com Subject: Re: cron + network share(w/ full access?) Message-ID: <20030411173024.GA165765@Worldnet> References: <20030411014720.GA4240@TGUN> <20030411015650.GA35059733@hpn5170x> <20030411180224.GA1712@TGUN> <3E970DAB.CB1DDEDE@ieee.org> <20030411192133.GA1740@TGUN> Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii Content-Disposition: inline In-Reply-To: <20030411192133.GA1740@TGUN> User-Agent: Mutt/1.4i On Fri, Apr 11, 2003 at 12:21:33PM -0700, Tim Gunter wrote: > > 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. > Out of curiosity, which 18 comes first in /etc/passwd? System or the new user? Pierre -- Unsubscribe info: http://cygwin.com/ml/#unsubscribe-simple Bug reporting: http://cygwin.com/bugs.html Documentation: http://cygwin.com/docs.html FAQ: http://cygwin.com/faq/