From: Brian Inglis <Brian.Inglis@SystematicSw.ab.ca>
To: cygwin@cygwin.com
Subject: Re: crontab message "must be privileged to use -u"
Date: Wed, 18 Mar 2020 19:25:20 -0600 [thread overview]
Message-ID: <da616bfd-93d5-28ff-ccdd-6f9cb0c9803e@SystematicSw.ab.ca> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <875zf1tka7.fsf@Rainer.invalid>
On 2020-03-18 15:39, Achim Gratz wrote:
> Andrey Repin writes:
>>>> I'm in an elevated shell, but it seems crontab is doing a dumb POSIX check for
>>>> EUID=0.
>>
>>> Then wrapping it with fakesu should work (no I have not tried that).
>>
>> Cool idea, but I'm not up for recompiling crontab >.>
>> Still, thanks for the reply.
>
> If you care to look at the package listing you might have noticed that
> there is an actual fakesu binary present that I believe does exactly
> what you were asking.
Installed libfakesu - fakesu just scans source for functions it can fake - it is
undocumented and not obvious how you are meant to run it.
One library function can implement suid/sgid exe permission bits.
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next prev parent reply other threads:[~2020-03-19 1:25 UTC|newest]
Thread overview: 7+ messages / expand[flat|nested] mbox.gz Atom feed top
2020-03-18 19:54 Andrey Repin
2020-03-18 20:21 ` Achim Gratz
2020-03-18 21:06 ` Andrey Repin
2020-03-18 21:39 ` Achim Gratz
2020-03-19 1:25 ` Brian Inglis [this message]
2020-03-19 7:01 ` ASSI
2020-03-20 16:08 ` Stephen Carrier
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