From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 From: Corinna Vinschen To: Corinna Vinschen Subject: Re: [ cron/crontab ] someone using cron on cygwin? Date: Fri, 04 May 2001 11:29:00 -0000 Message-id: <20010504202948.H24200@cygbert.vinschen.de> References: <3AF21637.21160.1304FF5F@localhost> <20010504101950.U24200@cygbert.vinschen.de> X-SW-Source: 2001-05/msg00242.html On Fri, May 04, 2001 at 05:14:04PM +0200, Dr. Volker Zell wrote: > >>>>> "Corinna" == Corinna Vinschen writes: > > Corinna> On Fri, May 04, 2001 at 02:38:47AM +0200, Gerrit P. Haase wrote: > >> Dear Corinna, > >> > >> $ crontab > >> crontab: can't obtain passwd entry. > > Corinna> You don't have a /etc/passwd entry for your user account. > Corinna> crontab tries to get your passwd entry by calling > > Corinna> struct passwd *pw = getpwuid (geteuid ()); > > Corinna> So check your user id (/bin/id) and add an entry for your > Corinna> user id to /etc/passwd. Or, even better, call mkpasswd to > Corinna> recreate /etc/passwd. > > Corinna I get the following error when using your crontab: > > vzell@VZELL /tmp > [502]> crontab > You must enter your Windows password. > Otherwise, your crontab entries can't be executed. > Password: > crontab: Unrecoverable error 2245. That's funny. Did you check error 2245? "The password does not meet the password policy requirements. Check the minimum password length, password complexity andpassword history requirements." The problem is that crontab validates the password you've entered by calling `NetUserChangePassword'. It tries to change your password from the password you've entered to the same password. For some reason your password doesn't actually meet some policy which is valid on your system. If you don't want that check you'll have to rebuild crontab. Corinna -- Corinna Vinschen Please, send mails regarding Cygwin to Cygwin Developer mailto:cygwin@cygwin.com Red Hat, Inc. -- Want to unsubscribe from this list? Check out: http://cygwin.com/ml/#unsubscribe-simple