Pierre, Somehow the permissions on my /etc/passwd and /etc/group files only gave read permission to my account not SYSTEM. Perhaps cron_diagnose.sh can be updated to incorporate this checkpoint, i.e., that passwd and group in /etc are readable by everyone.
Thanks for your help, Pierre. Now cron jobs kick off properly and I have telnet, ftp, etc. back again! :-D Cygwin rocks! Wayne -----Original Message----- From: Pierre A. Humblet [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] Sent: Wednesday, February 25, 2004 3:42 PM To: Winch Jr., Wayne S; [EMAIL PROTECTED] Subject: Re: Cron Running As UID 400 At 06:18 PM 2/25/2004 -0500, Winch Jr., Wayne S wrote: > >Pierre, > >Windows Task Manager reports the user as SYSTEM for all cygrunsrv >processes and their children (cron, inetd, etc.). Interestingly >enough, I regenerated the /etc/passwd entry for my user login on my >Windows XP Pro box at work and the UID field changed from what it was >before (after I sent the initial problem email to the Cygwin list). >Then, I rebooted and all Cygwin related services (cygrunsrvs) were now >identified as unknown user 400 in ps -ef. As one would then expect, >now I do not have any capabilities associated with these services, >including ftp, telnet, and IPC. At least now it's consistent! Is /etc/passwd readable by everybody? Is the system mount for / (or /etc) the same as your user mount? Is /etc/passwd on a local disk? One way or another, SYSTEM cannot read /etc/passwd, although (going back to your original mail), it was initially able to read it. > >My /etc/passwd file has the SYSTEM, Administrators and my personal >account listed as: > >SYSTEM:*:18:544:,S-1-5-18:: >Administrators:*:544:544:,S-1-5-32-544:: >winwa02:unused_by_nt/2000/xp:70656:10513:Winch Jr., Wayne >S,U-TANT-A01\winwa02,S-1-5-21-2129867641-919698055-327642922-60656:/hom >e >/winwa02:/bin/bash That looks OK. >My company's domain is TANT-A01 and my username is winwa02. > >Also, if I type passwd, then I get the following response: > >$ passwd >passwd: unknown user winwa02 > > >As you can see, my login entry is in /etc/passwd, but I seem to be >logged in as a different user, even though id reports: Does passwd support domain users? >$ id >uid=70656(winwa02) gid=10513(Domain Users) >groups=544(Administrators),545(Users),143344(442-SC-CRO-R),106908(98-Si >t e),10513(Domain Users),162415(NASiteGroups),169978(North American >Sites) > That's OK, you are logged in as U-TANT-A01\winwa02 Pierre > >>Wayne, >> >>The only reason why a Cygwin process runs with uid 400 is that its SID >>was not found in /etc/passwd when first starting from Windows (you can >>observe that by temporarily renaming /etc/passwd and starting a fresh >>Cygwin process). >>It's stange that this happens only for one cygrunsrv process >> >>Please use the Windows Task Manager ("Processes" tab) and report the >>User of the strange cygrunsrv, according to Windows. >> >>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/