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Date: Wed, 20 Aug 2003 10:15:09 +0200
From: Corinna Vinschen <corinna-cygwin AT cygwin DOT com>
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Subject: Re: cron and network drives
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On Tue, Aug 19, 2003 at 10:45:52AM -0700, Andrew DeFaria wrote:
> Corinna Vinschen wrote:
> >I don't pretend to understand how the SMB code in Windows works. It 
> >seems to be different on different machines. On my machine `net use' 
> >doesn't even bother to print any of the active shares when in a 
> >passwordless session:
> >
> Corinna, you are responsible for the cron code right? I think you also 
> did a lot of the security stuff with inetutils, etc. Does cron do what I 
> thought, which is run as SYSTEM and switchuser in a passwordless manner 
> to the user of the crontab?

Sure.  How should it do it's job otherwise?

> If so and it is also true that passwordless logins will not have access 
> to mapped drives then we still have a mystery here as to why it works on 
> one machine and not on the other.

"I don't pretend to understand how the SMB code in Windows works."

Corinna

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