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 Reply-To: Cygwin List Message-Id: <6.1.0.6.0.20040930154027.029e4d10@pop.prospeed.net> X-Sender: Date: Thu, 30 Sep 2004 15:43:53 -0400 To: Joshua Daniel Franklin , Cygwin List From: Larry Hall Subject: Re: Crontab issue In-Reply-To: References: <4DE70F2A7A19D511B7EC00D0B77E7C31F13E7D@UBANYEXCH> <6.1.0.6.0.20040909142537.03dc3838@pop.prospeed.net> Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset="us-ascii" At 12:53 AM 9/30/2004, you wrote: >On Thu, 09 Sep 2004 14:29:16 -0400, Larry Hall wrote: > >> Access to network shares seems to come up allot in the context of Cygwin >> services. Maybe it would be good to add something to the FAQ on this. >> What do you think Joshua? > >See how this does: > > Some Cygwin services normally run as the SYSTEM user, which has >certain limitations. Under the Windows authentication scheme, the >SYSTEM user cannot access network shares that require authentication. >For more information, see >`http://cygwin.com/cygwin-ug-net/ntsec.html'. > > Workarounds include using public network share that does not require >authentication (for non-critical files), or running the service as your >own user with `cygrunsrv'. Very nice. Thank you. I wonder if you would be able to add the following on a future pass: In the latter case, this is likely to keep the service from working for any user other than your own. Just a thought and really just for added clarification. I'm already excited about being able to point to this new FAQ entry next time the question comes up! :-) -- Larry Hall http://www.rfk.com RFK Partners, Inc. (508) 893-9779 - RFK Office 838 Washington Street (508) 893-9889 - FAX Holliston, MA 01746 -- Unsubscribe info: http://cygwin.com/ml/#unsubscribe-simple Problem reports: http://cygwin.com/problems.html Documentation: http://cygwin.com/docs.html FAQ: http://cygwin.com/faq/