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From: erik@gogoman.sf.ca.us (Erik Fortune)
Newsgroups: comp.unix.sysv386
Subject: Re: Misinterpretation of LUID was Re: SCO License security - another flame
Message-ID: <11@gogoman.sf.ca.us>
Date: 25 May 91 12:01:05 GMT
References: <qPTL22w164w@mudos.ann-arbor.mi.us> <1174@pemcom.pem-stuttgart.de> <9105241152.aa10661@art-sy.detroit.mi.us>
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In article <9105241152.aa10661@art-sy.detroit.mi.us> chap@art-sy.detroit.mi.us (j chapman flack) writes:
>Try su'ing to the ID of a pseudo-user and using crontab to update that user's
>cron table.  You can't do it.  "You must run crontab under your login UID."
Hmm.  I just munged the crontabs of sys, news and a couple of others
while su'ed on ODT1.1. 

As stated earlier, I don't have to su, even.  crontab -u <user>
works just fine.

-- Erik