> -----Original Message----- > From: Jason Crawford > Sent: Friday, December 18, 2015 1:01 PM > > On 12/18/2015 9:50 AM, Pierre A Humblet wrote: > >> -----Original Message----- > >> From: Jason Crawford > >> Sent: Friday, December 18, 2015 2:17 AM > >> > >> Hello everyone, > >> Thanks for a great offering and all the help you provide. I've > >> used cygwin for a few years, but not deeply. cron is one of the tools I > >> find very handy. Recently I upgraded to Windows 10 and ran in to > >> problems on my Surface Pro 3. I installed cygwin cron (latest cygwin > >> 32bit (2.873). Cron is 4.1-63.) and it seemed to work but as soon as > >> I switched my laptop to use the Microsoft ID cron as Microsoft suggest, > >> cron stopped working, complaining that it can not switch id's. If I do > >> a fresh install of Win10, switch to the Microsoft ID, and install cygwin > >> and cron, cron won't even work once. And if I do a fresh install of > >> Win10 and never switch to the Microsoft id, cygwin cron works fine. > >> When it fails, the cronevents log file complains that it can't switch user > id's. > >> > >> I really don't do much. I just install cygwin with cron, emacs, ssh, > >> inetutils, unison, wget. Then I start up a cygwin window as > >> administrator. Then cron-config, yes (service), [] (blank CYGWIN), > >> yes (self), yes (start daemon). Then I create a trivial cron file "*/1 > >> * * * * date >~/cron_is_running.txt". crontab mycron ... and I > >> wait a minute. Then I invoke cronevents. > >> > >> I want to try out all the features of that Microsoft touts as coming > >> with use of the Microsoft ID, but I don't want to lose cron. > >> > >> What do we all suggest that I do next? > > Is that only with Cron or also with other services such as passwordless > sshd? > I don't run sshd on the machine (as far as I know). I only ssh out. > That works fine without a password. But... > > But I've just tried setting up sshd on two Windows machines just now. > I ran in to a few complications due to being a novice, but it eventually > worked on Windows 7. I've still not gotten sshd to work on Windows 10 > if my ssh client is on another machine. That seems to be some sort of > network connection or firewall problem. I can ssh from the local Win10 > machine to the local Win10 machine though. I have only one account and > I can ssh in to that without a password using authorized_keys. > > Does that answer your question? Is there a simpler or more helpful way > that I can gather data for you? I don't mind reinstalling the > operating system if that would help.
Thanks, Jason. I assume both cron-config and ssh-host-config asked you for the name of a privileged user, and you used the same name in both cases. You may want to try what I suggested to someone else a while ago http://cygwin.1069669.n5.nabble.com/cron-error-can-t-switch-user-context-td61919.html The instructions were, as follows, except that now the service should run under the privileged account, (use -u), not under SYSTEM (the default) > Stop the cron service. > Use a simple crontab that runs every minute, for only one user. > Using cygrunsrv, create a new service runing "strace" with argument "cron" > under SYSTEM > 1) cygrunsrv -I trace_cron -p /usr/bin/strace -a /usr/sbin/cron > 2) cygrunsrv -S trace_cron > 3) Let this run for no more than 2 minutes, output will be in > /var/log/trace_cron.log > You may have to use kill -9 to stop the service (kill the cron pid) > 4) Send the trace_cron.log file as an attachment. > 5) Remove the trace_cron service Pierre -- Problem reports: http://cygwin.com/problems.html FAQ: http://cygwin.com/faq/ Documentation: http://cygwin.com/docs.html Unsubscribe info: http://cygwin.com/ml/#unsubscribe-simple
