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Date: Sat, 22 Jun 2002 15:19:47 +0200
From: Corinna Vinschen <corinna-cygwin AT cygwin DOT com>
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Subject: Re: cron, uid, and network drives
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On Fri, Jun 21, 2002 at 11:57:01AM -0700, Noel Yap wrote:
> The conclusion I drew in my previous post is
> incorrect.  It looks like the uid of the script is my
> uid as I would expect.  I sincerely and emphatically
> apologize if anyone wasted any time hunting this down.
> 
> I've tracked the problem down to permissions problems
> when trying to write to network drives.

Since cron is running under SYSTEM account and since cron
changes user context w/o password authentication, no child
process has access to network drives.

This has been discussed multiple times in this list.

Corinna

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