Newsgroups: comp.unix.sysv386
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From: sef@kithrup.COM (Sean Eric Fagan)
Subject: Re: SCO License security - another flame
Organization: Kithrup Enterprises, Ltd.
Date: Thu, 23 May 1991 23:52:00 GMT
Message-ID: <1991May23.235200.9371@kithrup.COM>
References: <1991May21.172622.5358@logixwi.uucp> <1251@dms.UUCP>

In article <1251@dms.UUCP> shepperd@dms.UUCP (Dave Shepperd) writes:
>Sean suggested that one could su
>to the subject account and use crontab from there. It is my observation
>that this does not work on the 3 O/S's that I use regularly. The symptom
>is that crontab insists on using the original username even after doing
>an su. 

And it is my observation, after just trying it a) as root su'd to news, b)
as root su'd to uucp (which does not have a password), and c) as sef su'd 
to root, that it works as I have described it.

Since I am running a straight SCO UNIX 3.2v2 (with the exception of uucico,
which is a sef Special), I fail to see how you can get that error.

Perhaps you're thinking of at?

-- 
Sean Eric Fagan  | "I made the universe, but please don't blame me for it;
sef@kithrup.COM  |  I had a bellyache at the time."
-----------------+           -- The Turtle (Stephen King, _It_)
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