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Date: Wed, 18 Mar 2020 22:54:51 +0300
From: Andrey Repin <anrdaemon AT yandex DOT ru>
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Subject: crontab message "must be privileged to use -u"
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Greetings, All!

I'm trying to use Cygwin's cron, but have a small issue:

# crontab -u 18 -l
must be privileged to use -u

Is there a way around the problem?
I'm in an elevated shell, but it seems crontab is doing a dumb POSIX check for
EUID=0.


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With best regards,
Andrey Repin
Wednesday, March 18, 2020 22:51:54

Sorry for my terrible english...

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