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cron security/permission trouble



Greetings, Cygwinners.

Recently, cron has been giving me trouble on several machines. My user
'eagle' does not have the correct permissions to rename the tab file (or
modify anything in /var/cron).

I looked at the nt permissions of the /var/cron/tab direct and it is only
modifiable by the user SYSTEM, while on a machine with a well working
cron, that directory is modifiable by the Administrator's group ( of
which, the user 'eagle' is a member).

I just did an install from cygwin.com and I experienced this problem.

The other note is that there is a user 'S-1-0-0' which the OS doesn't seem
to recognize, since it puts a red question mark on the icon.

I would appreciate any helpful suggestions.


Here's the error when using crontab:

crontab: error renaming tabs/tmp.000884 to tabs/eagle
rename: Permission denied


Here the cygcheck info from the recent cygwin.com install:

Cygwin Package Information
Last downloaded files to: C:\Documents and Settings\eagle\Desktop
Last downloaded files from: http://mirrors.rcn.net/pub/sourceware/cygwin

Package             Version
ash                 20011018-1
bash                2.05a-2
cron                3.0.1-5
cygrunsrv           0.94-2
cygwin              1.3.9-1
diff                0.0
fileutils           4.1-1
findutils           4.1
gawk                3.0.4-1
gdbm                1.8.0-3
grep                2.4.2-1
gzip                1.3.2-1
libintl             0.10.38-3
libintl1            0.10.40-1
libncurses5         5.2-1
libncurses6         5.2-8
libreadline4        4.1-2
libreadline5        4.2a-1
login               1.4-3
nano                1.0.6-1
ncurses             5.2-8
readline            4.2a-1
sed                 3.02-1
sh-utils            2.0-2
tar                 1.13.19-1
termcap             20010825-1
terminfo            5.2-1
textutils           2.0.16-1
which               1.5-1
zlib                1.1.3-7


Cygwin Win95/NT Configuration Diagnostics
Current System Time: Thu Jan 31 13:20:23 2002

Windows 2000 Professional Ver 5.0 Build 2195 Service Pack 2

Path:	C:\eagle\usr\local\bin
	C:\eagle\bin
	C:\eagle\bin
	c:\WINNT\system32
	c:\WINNT
	c:\WINNT\System32\Wbem

SysDir: C:\WINNT\System32
WinDir: C:\WINNT

HOME = `C:\eagle\home\eagle'
MAKE_MODE = `unix'
PWD = `/home/eagle'
USER = `eagle'

!:: = `::\'
ALLUSERSPROFILE = `C:\Documents and Settings\All Users'
APPDATA = `C:\Documents and Settings\eagle\Application Data'
COMMONPROGRAMFILES = `C:\Program Files\Common Files'
COMPUTERNAME = `INNOVATI-HO9VN9'
COMSPEC = `C:\WINNT\system32\cmd.exe'
EDITOR = `nano'
HOMEDRIVE = `C:'
HOMEPATH = `\'
LOGONSERVER = `\\INNOVATI-HO9VN9'
NUMBER_OF_PROCESSORS = `1'
OLDPWD = `/usr/bin'
OS2LIBPATH = `C:\WINNT\system32\os2\dll;'
OS = `Windows_NT'
PATHEXT = `.COM;.EXE;.BAT;.CMD;.VBS;.VBE;.JS;.JSE;.WSF;.WSH'
PROCESSOR_ARCHITECTURE = `x86'
PROCESSOR_IDENTIFIER = `x86 Family 6 Model 8 Stepping 10, GenuineIntel'
PROCESSOR_LEVEL = `6'
PROCESSOR_REVISION = `080a'
PROGRAMFILES = `C:\Program Files'
PROMPT = `$P$G'
PS1 = `\[\033]0;\w\007
\033[32m\]\u@\h \[\033[33m\w\033[0m\]
$ '
SHLVL = `1'
SYSTEMDRIVE = `C:'
SYSTEMROOT = `C:\WINNT'
TEMP = `c:\DOCUME~1\eagle\LOCALS~1\Temp'
TERM = `cygwin'
TMP = `c:\DOCUME~1\eagle\LOCALS~1\Temp'
USERDOMAIN = `INNOVATI-HO9VN9'
USERNAME = `eagle'
USERPROFILE = `C:\Documents and Settings\eagle'
WINDIR = `C:\WINNT'
_ = `/usr/bin/cygcheck.exe'

Use `-r' to scan registry

a:  fd           N/A    N/A
c:  hd  NTFS   38154Mb   7% CP CS UN PA FC
d:  cd           N/A    N/A
e:  cd           N/A    N/A

.             /cygdrive  user    binmode,noumount
C:/eagle      /          system  binmode
C:/eagle/bin  /usr/bin   system  binmode
C:/eagle/lib  /usr/lib   system  binmode

Found: C:\eagle\bin\bash.exe
Found: C:\eagle\bin\cat.exe
Not Found: cpp (good!)
Found: C:\eagle\bin\find.exe
Not Found: gcc
Not Found: gdb
Not Found: ld
Found: C:\eagle\bin\ls.exe
Not Found: make
Found: C:\eagle\bin\sh.exe

   45k 2001/04/25 C:\eagle\bin\cygform5.dll - os=4.0 img=1.0 sys=4.0
                  "cygform5.dll" v0.0 ts=2001/4/25 1:28
   35k 2002/01/09 C:\eagle\bin\cygform6.dll - os=4.0 img=1.0 sys=4.0
                  "cygform6.dll" v0.0 ts=2002/1/9 1:03
   18k 2000/10/23 C:\eagle\bin\cyggdbm.dll - os=4.0 img=1.0 sys=4.0
                  "cyggdbm.dll" v0.0 ts=2000/10/22 22:26
   17k 2001/06/28 C:\eagle\bin\cyghistory4.dll - os=4.0 img=1.0 sys=4.0
                  "cyghistory4.dll" v0.0 ts=2001/1/6 23:34
   20k 2002/01/13 C:\eagle\bin\cyghistory5.dll - os=4.0 img=1.0 sys=4.0
                  "cyghistory5.dll" v0.0 ts=2002/1/12 20:27
   22k 2001/12/13 C:\eagle\bin\cygintl-1.dll - os=4.0 img=1.0 sys=4.0
                  "cygintl-1.dll" v0.0 ts=2001/12/13 4:28
   21k 2001/06/20 C:\eagle\bin\cygintl.dll - os=4.0 img=1.0 sys=4.0
                  "cygintl.dll" v0.0 ts=2001/6/20 13:09
   26k 2001/04/25 C:\eagle\bin\cygmenu5.dll - os=4.0 img=1.0 sys=4.0
                  "cygmenu5.dll" v0.0 ts=2001/4/25 1:27
   20k 2002/01/09 C:\eagle\bin\cygmenu6.dll - os=4.0 img=1.0 sys=4.0
                  "cygmenu6.dll" v0.0 ts=2002/1/9 1:03
  156k 2001/04/25 C:\eagle\bin\cygncurses++5.dll - os=4.0 img=1.0 sys=4.0
                  "cygncurses++5.dll" v0.0 ts=2001/4/25 1:29
  175k 2002/01/09 C:\eagle\bin\cygncurses++6.dll - os=4.0 img=1.0 sys=4.0
                  "cygncurses++6.dll" v0.0 ts=2002/1/9 1:03
  226k 2001/04/25 C:\eagle\bin\cygncurses5.dll - os=4.0 img=1.0 sys=4.0
                  "cygncurses5.dll" v0.0 ts=2001/4/25 1:17
  202k 2002/01/09 C:\eagle\bin\cygncurses6.dll - os=4.0 img=1.0 sys=4.0
                  "cygncurses6.dll" v0.0 ts=2002/1/9 1:03
   15k 2001/04/25 C:\eagle\bin\cygpanel5.dll - os=4.0 img=1.0 sys=4.0
                  "cygpanel5.dll" v0.0 ts=2001/4/25 1:27
   12k 2002/01/09 C:\eagle\bin\cygpanel6.dll - os=4.0 img=1.0 sys=4.0
                  "cygpanel6.dll" v0.0 ts=2002/1/9 1:03
  108k 2001/06/28 C:\eagle\bin\cygreadline4.dll - os=4.0 img=1.0 sys=4.0
                  "cygreadline4.dll" v0.0 ts=2001/1/6 23:34
  121k 2002/01/13 C:\eagle\bin\cygreadline5.dll - os=4.0 img=1.0 sys=4.0
                  "cygreadline5.dll" v0.0 ts=2002/1/12 20:27
   50k 2002/01/20 C:\eagle\bin\cygz.dll - os=4.0 img=1.0 sys=4.0
                  "cygz.dll" v0.0 ts=2002/1/20 14:41
  751k 2002/01/21 C:\eagle\bin\cygwin1.dll - os=4.0 img=1.0 sys=4.0
                  "cygwin1.dll" v0.0 ts=2002/1/21 12:48
    Cygwin DLL version info:
        DLL version: 1.3.9
        DLL epoch: 19
        DLL bad signal mask: 19005
        DLL old termios: 5
        DLL malloc env: 28
        API major: 0
        API minor: 51
        Shared data: 3
        DLL identifier: cygwin1
        Mount registry: 2
        Cygnus registry name: Cygnus Solutions
        Cygwin registry name: Cygwin
        Program options name: Program Options
        Cygwin mount registry name: mounts v2
        Cygdrive flags: cygdrive flags
        Cygdrive prefix: cygdrive prefix
        Cygdrive default prefix:
        Build date: Mon Jan 21 12:48:41 EST 2002
        Shared id: cygwin1S3

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