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: Mon, 8 Nov 2004 13:48:43 -0500 (EST) From: Igor Pechtchanski Reply-To: cygwin AT cygwin DOT com To: "Rebstock, Roland" cc: cygwin AT cygwin DOT com Subject: RE: Cygwin Cron - Cannot Switch user context In-Reply-To: Message-ID: References: MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: TEXT/PLAIN; charset=US-ASCII X-Scanned-By: MIMEDefang 2.39 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 . HTH, Igor -- http://cs.nyu.edu/~pechtcha/ |\ _,,,---,,_ pechtcha AT cs DOT nyu DOT edu ZZZzz /,`.-'`' -. ;-;;,_ igor AT watson DOT ibm DOT com |,4- ) )-,_. ,\ ( `'-' Igor Pechtchanski, Ph.D. '---''(_/--' `-'\_) fL a.k.a JaguaR-R-R-r-r-r-.-.-. Meow! "The Sun will pass between the Earth and the Moon tonight for a total Lunar eclipse..." -- WCBS Radio Newsbrief, Oct 27 2004, 12:01 pm EDT -- Unsubscribe info: http://cygwin.com/ml/#unsubscribe-simple Problem reports: http://cygwin.com/problems.html Documentation: http://cygwin.com/docs.html FAQ: http://cygwin.com/faq/