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Date: Thu, 10 Nov 2005 10:23:52 +0100
From: Corinna Vinschen <corinna-cygwin AT cygwin DOT com>
To: cygwin AT cygwin DOT com
Subject: Re: problems using cron to access NTFS encrypted files on XP Pro
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On Nov  9 23:01, cyg DOT 108 AT xoxy DOT net wrote:
> 
> Well I think I'm figured out part of what's going on here.  It appears
> that when the backup script is run by cron, it is not able to read or
> write encrypted NTFS files.  Is there a workaround?

Yes, use the Windows task scheduler.  You can't access the encrypted
files because the cron jobs don't run with full user credentials.  In
other words, they don't have your password, which is necessary to access
encrypted files.  There's no workaround, except by either storing your
password in cleartext or two-way encrypted at some point to do a
subsequent user logon (which should be a no-no for obvious reasons), or
by using a scheduler which is using password authentication to do its
job, which is for instance the windows scheduler.


Corinna

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