On 2020-03-18 15:39, Achim Gratz wrote: > Andrey Repin writes: >>>> I'm in an elevated shell, but it seems crontab is doing a dumb POSIX check >>>> for >>>> EUID=0. >> >>> Then wrapping it with fakesu should work (no I have not tried that). >> >> Cool idea, but I'm not up for recompiling crontab >.> >> Still, thanks for the reply. > > If you care to look at the package listing you might have noticed that > there is an actual fakesu binary present that I believe does exactly > what you were asking.
Installed libfakesu - fakesu just scans source for functions it can fake - it is undocumented and not obvious how you are meant to run it. One library function can implement suid/sgid exe permission bits. -- Take care. Thanks, Brian Inglis, Calgary, Alberta, Canada This email may be disturbing to some readers as it contains too much technical detail. Reader discretion is advised. -- Problem reports: https://cygwin.com/problems.html FAQ: https://cygwin.com/faq/ Documentation: https://cygwin.com/docs.html Unsubscribe info: https://cygwin.com/ml/#unsubscribe-simple
