Mailing-List: contact cygwin-help AT cygwin DOT com; run by ezmlm List-Subscribe: List-Archive: List-Post: List-Help: , Sender: cygwin-owner AT cygwin DOT com Mail-Followup-To: cygwin AT cygwin DOT com Delivered-To: mailing list cygwin AT cygwin DOT com Date: Fri, 11 Apr 2003 12:21:33 -0700 From: Tim Gunter To: "Pierre A. Humblet" , cygwin AT cygwin DOT com Subject: Re: cron + network share(w/ full access?) Message-ID: <20030411192133.GA1740@TGUN> Reply-To: tim DOT gunter AT bioscrypt DOT com References: <20030411014720 DOT GA4240 AT TGUN> <20030411015650 DOT GA35059733 AT hpn5170x> <20030411180224 DOT GA1712 AT TGUN> <3E970DAB DOT CB1DDEDE AT ieee DOT org> Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii Content-Disposition: inline In-Reply-To: <3E970DAB.CB1DDEDE@ieee.org> User-Agent: Mutt/1.4i > 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. thanks a lot! thanks to all the Cygwin developers, it's a fantastic tool! --tim -- 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/