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Reply-To: "Peter Wisnovsky" <peter AT wisnovsky DOT net>
From: "Peter Wisnovsky" <peter AT wisnovsky DOT net>
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Subject: Re: Running ssh from procmail
Date: Tue, 15 Jun 2004 09:47:34 -0700
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I'm running it using fetchmail -d #.

Peter

----- Original Message ----- 
From: "Brian Dessent" 
To: <cygwin AT cygwin DOT com>
Sent: Tuesday, June 15, 2004 9:05 AM
Subject: Re: Running ssh from procmail -#- MailID:TNFA


> Peter Wisnovsky wrote:
> 
> >     socket: Operation not permitted
> >     ssh: connect to host #.#.#.# port 22: Operation not permitted
> 
> How are you scheduling fetchmail to run?  From cron?  If it's running
> from cron, then it will be running as the SYSTEM user.  It will be
> impersonating your regular user account, but since it's launched from a
> service it will actually be the SYSTEM account that owns the process. 
> I've read that on recent server versions (e.g. Win2k3) the SYSTEM
> account has less privileges assigned to it by default, one of which
> might be "access the network."  If that's the case then it would explain
> why it cannot gethostbyaddr() to resolve the hostname, and why the
> socket functions fail with "operation not permitted" if supplied a
> dotted-quad.  Try adding that privilege, or have crun run as the
> "NetworkService" instead of "LocalServer" or whatever it's called.
> 
> Brian
> 
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