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Date:  Thu, 13 Sep 2007 01:00:00 -0500
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Pierre A. Humblet wrote:

[snip]
> | On W2K3, if you expect a service to be able to switch user contexts, you
> | need a special service account.  You can use the 'sshd_server' account =
that
> | would be created for you if you configure 'sshd' and ask it to create t=
he
> | account when it asks you.  See the "/usr/share/doc/Cygwin/openssh.READM=
E"
> | for details.
>=20
> The above is correct, but later cron was switch to run as PolsonA

Wrong, the log just shows that the user edited his crontab (i.e. did a `cro=
ntab
-e`) which does a reload on exit.  Larry's diagnostic is right, cron should=
n't
be running as the user PolsonA.

> 2007/09/12 16:19:31 [PolsonA] cron: PID 1432: `cron' service started
> 2007/09/12 16:19:41 [PolsonA] crontab: PID 2844: (PolsonA) BEGIN EDIT (Po=
lsonA)
> 2007/09/12 16:19:46 [PolsonA] crontab: PID 2844: (PolsonA) REPLACE (Polso=
nA)
> 2007/09/12 16:19:46 [PolsonA] crontab: PID 2844: (PolsonA) END EDIT (Pols=
onA)
> 2007/09/12 16:20:01 [PolsonA] /usr/sbin/cron: PID 2564: (PolsonA) RELOAD =
(tabs/PolsonA)
> and everything looks normal (cron reloaded the crontab).
> Did you wait long enough for the jobs to run?
> Please look at cron.log in the home directory of  PolsonA, and possibly a=
t /tmp/*cron* files for=20
> further output from the jobs.
--=20
Ren=C3=A9 Berber


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