Re: Confused about several issues with setting up cron

[bartels <bartels@mailme.ath.cx>]

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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