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: Thu, 10 Nov 2005 10:23:52 +0100 From: Corinna Vinschen To: cygwin@cygwin.com Subject: Re: problems using cron to access NTFS encrypted files on XP Pro Message-ID: <20051110092352.GB4770@calimero.vinschen.de> Reply-To: cygwin@cygwin.com Mail-Followup-To: cygwin@cygwin.com References: <200511100702.jAA72K2j018921@gourmet.spamgourmet.com> Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii Content-Disposition: inline In-Reply-To: <200511100702.jAA72K2j018921@gourmet.spamgourmet.com> User-Agent: Mutt/1.4.2i On Nov 9 23:01, cyg.108@xoxy.net wrote: > > Well I think I'm figured out part of what's going on here. It appears > that when the backup script is run by cron, it is not able to read or > write encrypted NTFS files. Is there a workaround? Yes, use the Windows task scheduler. You can't access the encrypted files because the cron jobs don't run with full user credentials. In other words, they don't have your password, which is necessary to access encrypted files. There's no workaround, except by either storing your password in cleartext or two-way encrypted at some point to do a subsequent user logon (which should be a no-no for obvious reasons), or by using a scheduler which is using password authentication to do its job, which is for instance the windows scheduler. Corinna -- Corinna Vinschen Please, send mails regarding Cygwin to Cygwin Project Co-Leader cygwin AT cygwin DOT com Red Hat, Inc. -- 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/