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From: Achim Gratz <Stromeko AT nexgo DOT de>
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Subject: Re: crontab message "must be privileged to use -u"
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Date: Wed, 18 Mar 2020 21:21:25 +0100
In-Reply-To: <1575279001.20200318225451@yandex.ru> (Andrey Repin's message of
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Andrey Repin writes:
> 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.

Then wrapping it with fakesu should work (no I have not tried that).


Regards,
Achim.
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