Misinterpretation of LUID was Re: SCO License security - another flame

Erik Fortune erik at gogoman.sf.ca.us
Sat May 25 22:01:05 AEST 1991


In article <9105241152.aa10661 at art-sy.detroit.mi.us> chap at art-sy.detroit.mi.us (j chapman flack) writes:
>Try su'ing to the ID of a pseudo-user and using crontab to update that user's
>cron table.  You can't do it.  "You must run crontab under your login UID."
Hmm.  I just munged the crontabs of sys, news and a couple of others
while su'ed on ODT1.1. 

As stated earlier, I don't have to su, even.  crontab -u <user>
works just fine.

-- Erik



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