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Re: Confused about several issues with setting up cron
- From: bartels <bartels at mailme dot ath dot cx>
- To: Andrey Repin <cygwin at cygwin dot com>
- Date: Mon, 23 Sep 2013 20:59:49 +0200
- Subject: Re: Confused about several issues with setting up cron
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On 09/23/2013 08:08 PM, Andrey Repin wrote:
Greetings, bartels!
By the way: SYSTEM is not a user.
Since when?
Since Bill Gates stopped sleeping in his garage? :)
$ passwd SYSTEM
passwd: unknown user SYSTEM
Without knowing too much about Windows internals, I have always considered
SYSTEM to be a context, rather than a user.
Your assumption is wrong.
You are persuing a childish argument in semantics.
I think we both know what the SYSTEM means.
And windows loudly disagrees with you:
$ net user SYSTEM
The user name could not be found.
Greatly simplifying, NT AUTHORITY\SYSTEM is a
built-in access control group, under which whole system kernel works.
You are saying it: SYSTEM is a UAC.
Besides, your argument is off topic, as this thread is about setting up sshd.
cron-config does not accept SYSTEM as a user
Of course we both know that to be just a limitation of cron-config.
- bartels
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