SCO License security - another flame

[Derek E. Terveer]

sef at kithrup.COM (Sean Eric Fagan) writes:

>In article <1251 at dms.UUCP> shepperd at dms.UUCP (Dave Shepperd) writes:
>>Sean suggested that one could su
>>to the subject account and use crontab from there. It is my observation
>>that this does not work on the 3 O/S's that I use regularly. The symptom
>>is that crontab insists on using the original username even after doing
>>an su. 

>And it is my observation, after just trying it a) as root su'd to news, b)
>as root su'd to uucp (which does not have a password), and c) as sef su'd 
>to root, that it works as I have described it.

Seems to work just fine under Esix 5.3.2-D as well under all three shells:
ksh, sh, csh.
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