cronjobs for non-administrator-User don't work

cronjobs for non-administrator-User don't work

[Ulrich.Herbst]

Hi,

we have:

Cygwin Configuration Diagnostics
Current System Time: Mon May 02 12:26:11 2011

Windows 2008 R2 Server Enterprise Ver 6.1 Build 7600 

Running under WOW64 on AMD64

Path:   D:\cygwin\usr\local\bin
        D:\cygwin\bin
        D:\cygwin\bin

SysDir: C:\Windows\system32
WinDir: C:\Windows

There, crond is running as service with user .\cyg_serv.

We have two users:
user1 with administrator privilege,
user2 without administrator privilege, but part of the users-group in Windows.

cronjobs for user1 are working.

cronjobs for user2 aren't working.

cron.log shows:
X-Cron-Env: <LOGNAME=edicsuser>

   3147 [main] cron 6352 D:\cygwin\usr\sbin\cron.exe: *** fatal error - unable to load C:\Windows\system32\user32.dll, Win32 error 1114
Stack trace:
Frame     Function  Args


Looking in explorer, I see, that C:\Windows\system32\users32.dll is readable and executable to administrators group and to users group.

Any idea, why user2 isn't allowed to run cronjobs ?

Uli


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Re: cronjobs for non-administrator-User don't work

[Corinna Vinschen]

On May  2 13:23, Ulrich.Herbst@t-systems.com wrote:
> Hi,
> 
> we have:
> 
> Cygwin Configuration Diagnostics
> Current System Time: Mon May 02 12:26:11 2011
> 
> Windows 2008 R2 Server Enterprise Ver 6.1 Build 7600 
> 
> Running under WOW64 on AMD64
> 
> Path:   D:\cygwin\usr\local\bin
>         D:\cygwin\bin
>         D:\cygwin\bin
> 
> SysDir: C:\Windows\system32
> WinDir: C:\Windows
> 
> There, crond is running as service with user .\cyg_serv.
> 
> We have two users:
> user1 with administrator privilege,
> user2 without administrator privilege, but part of the users-group in Windows.
> 
> cronjobs for user1 are working.
> 
> cronjobs for user2 aren't working.
> 
> cron.log shows:
> X-Cron-Env: <LOGNAME=edicsuser>
> 
>    3147 [main] cron 6352 D:\cygwin\usr\sbin\cron.exe: *** fatal error - unable to load C:\Windows\system32\user32.dll, Win32 error 1114
> Stack trace:
> Frame     Function  Args
> 
> 
> Looking in explorer, I see, that C:\Windows\system32\users32.dll is readable and executable to administrators group and to users group.
> 
> Any idea, why user2 isn't allowed to run cronjobs ?

Not really.  If I knew why user32 sometimes failed to load, I would be
glad.  However, you didn't mention which authentication method you're
using(*) to switch to another user.  Since that's cron, password
authentication isn't an option anyway.  From the passwordless methods,
method one is the default, so I assume you're using it.  Did you try to
switch to method 2 or 3 and see if that works?


Corinna


(*) http://cygwin.com/cygwin-ug-net/ntsec.html#ntsec-setuid-overview

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