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Date: Thu, 31 Jan 2002 20:59:29 +0100
From: Corinna Vinschen <cygwin AT cygwin DOT com>
To: cygwin <cygwin AT cygwin DOT com>
Subject: Re: cron security/permission trouble
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On Thu, Jan 31, 2002 at 01:52:53PM -0500, Michael Adler wrote:
> I looked at the nt permissions of the /var/cron/tab direct and it is only
> modifiable by the user SYSTEM, while on a machine with a well working
> cron, that directory is modifiable by the Administrator's group ( of
> which, the user 'eagle' is a member).

Just change the permissions to 1755.

> The other note is that there is a user 'S-1-0-0' which the OS doesn't seem
> to recognize, since it puts a red question mark on the icon.

It's created by Cygwin to implement POSIX bits not available in
NT ACLs.

Corinna

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