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Date: Mon, 8 Nov 2004 13:48:43 -0500 (EST)
From: Igor Pechtchanski <pechtcha AT cs DOT nyu DOT edu>
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To: "Rebstock, Roland" <Roland DOT Rebstock AT usi DOT net>
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Subject: RE:  Cygwin Cron - Cannot Switch user context
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On Mon, 8 Nov 2004, Rebstock, Roland wrote:

> All, I have a Win2k3 server with cygwin. I cannot get cron to execute
> any jobs that previously ran under Win2k.  The error is " Cannot Switch
> user Context".  Is there a solution?
>
> CYGWIN_NT-5.2  1.5.5
>
> Roland Rebstock

Win2k3's SYSTEM account by default doesn't have all the rights necessary
to switch user contexts.  One (rather non-obvious, IMO) place to find some
details on this is /usr/share/doc/Cygwin/openssh.README.  This information
(verbatim from the above README, from "Important note for Windows 2003
Server users" to "Increase quota") should really be part of
<http://cygwin.com/cygwin-ug-net/ntsec.html#NTSEC-SWITCH>.
HTH,
	Igor
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