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From: erik@gogoman.sf.ca.us (Erik Fortune)
Newsgroups: comp.unix.sysv386
Subject: Re: SCO License security - another flame
Message-ID: <10@gogoman.sf.ca.us>
Date: 22 May 91 17:08:34 GMT
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Organization: Erik's Adventure Ranch
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In article <sZH821w164w@mudos.ann-arbor.mi.us> mju@mudos.ann-arbor.mi.us (Marc Unangst) writes:
>Yes, I've heard of it.  I also know that crontab does not work when
>you've su'd to another user.  For example, how do I change the crontab
>for user "news", which has an unmatchable password (no need to ever
>log in as news)?  I can't log in as "news", and crontab doesn't work
>if I su to "news" from root.

On ODT 1.1, "crontab -u news" works fine (as root).   I just tried it.

-- Erik