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From: det@hawkmoon.MN.ORG (Derek E. Terveer)
Newsgroups: comp.unix.sysv386
Subject: Re: SCO License security - another flame
Message-ID: <1991Jun3.062531.17668@hawkmoon.MN.ORG>
Date: 3 Jun 91 06:25:31 GMT
Article-I.D.: hawkmoon.1991Jun3.062531.17668
References: <1991May21.172622.5358@logixwi.uucp> <1251@dms.UUCP> <1991May23.235200.9371@kithrup.COM>
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sef@kithrup.COM (Sean Eric Fagan) writes:

>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.

Seems to work just fine under Esix 5.3.2-D as well under all three shells:
ksh, sh, csh.
-- 
Derek "Tigger" Terveer	det@hawkmoon.MN.ORG -- U of MN Women's Lax
I am the way and the truth and the light, I know all the answers; don't need
your advice.  -- "I am the way and the truth and the light" -- The Legendary Pink Dots