Mailing-List: contact cygwin-help@cygwin.com; run by ezmlm List-Subscribe: List-Archive: List-Post: List-Help: , Sender: cygwin-owner@cygwin.com Mail-Followup-To: cygwin@cygwin.com Delivered-To: mailing list cygwin@cygwin.com Date: Thu, 23 Oct 2003 10:13:09 -0400 (EDT) From: Jeremy A Redburn Subject: Re: Problem w/ cron In-reply-to: <3F96F9F3.74262202@phumblet.no-ip.org> X-X-Sender: jredburn@olga.williams.edu To: "Pierre A. Humblet" Cc: cygwin@cygwin.com Message-id: MIME-version: 1.0 Content-type: TEXT/PLAIN; charset=US-ASCII References: <3F96F9F3.74262202@phumblet.no-ip.org> Sorry, I'm a little frazzled this morning, here are the relevant portions of /etc/passwd: SYSTEM:*:18:18:,S-1-5-18:: Administrators:*:544:544:,S-1-5-32-544:: Administrator:unused_by_nt/2000/xp:500:513:U-IBM-VNYWG3WG0KP\Administrator,S-1-5-21-1844237615-1563985344-1060284298-500:/cygdrive/c/Documents and Settings/Administrator.IBM-NMR31UMZNAJ:/bin/bash and /etc/group: SYSTEM:S-1-5-18:18: None:S-1-5-21-1844237615-1563985344-1060284298-513:513: Administrators:S-1-5-32-544:544: Jeremy On Wed, 22 Oct 2003, Pierre A. Humblet wrote: > Jeremy A Redburn wrote: > > > > Hi there, > > > > I am having permissions trouble with the latest cron on Cygwin. I am > > running WindowsXP and have an ssh identity file owned by me: > > > > -rw------- 1 Administ None 672 Oct 22 16:15 identity > > It's not clear if the owner is Administrator or Administrators. > Try ls -ln > > > The problem is that I do not seem to have read access to this file when > > running a command under Administrator's crontab. Right now, I have: > > > > * * * * * /usr/bin/cat /tmp/identity > /tmp/identity2 2>&1 > > > > But /tmp/identity2 is just: > > /usr/bin/cat: /tmp/identity: Permission denied > > > > When I run the command from the shell, it works fine. I have run `id` from > > the shell and from cron and there is a minor difference: > > > > uid=500(Administrator) gid=513(None) groups=544(Administrators),545(Users) > > uid=500(Administrator) gid=513(None) groups=513(None),545(Users) > > That's a big difference, and it's abnormal. > Some name aliasing might be taking place. > What does fgrep Administrator /etc/passwd give? You will need to provide > more details, see http://cygwin.com/problems.html > > The workaround suggested by Brian Ford might work, but there is still > an underlying problem. > > Pierre > -- 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/