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List:       openbsd-misc
Subject:    Re: crontab(1) confused by su(1)?
From:       Jan Stary <hans () stare ! cz>
Date:       2013-07-26 6:58:37
Message-ID: 20130726065836.GA15887 () www ! stare ! cz
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On Jul 26 08:42:52, fluca1978@infinito.it wrote:
> On Wed, Jul 24, 2013 at 8:32 AM, Jan Stary <hans@stare.cz> wrote:
> 
> >> Could someone please provide an example
> >> where su(1) confuses crontab(1)?
> 
> If I get it right the problem is not running crontab, rather modifying
> the crontrab files.
> In such case the following could be an example: I ask su(1) to become
> another user without modifying the environment, therefore I'm another
> user running in the same environment of the former (than there's a
> privilege problem, of course). Crontab searches for the current uid
> while I would like to see the old one.
> 
> 
> % id
>                                         ~
> uid=1001(luca) gid=1001(luca) groups=1001(luca),0(wheel)
> % su -m pgsql

%id 

> % echo $USER
>                                        ~
> luca
> % crontab -l
>                                        ~
> crontab: no crontab for pgsql

You have su'd to pgsql, and crontab -l
is showing you the (nonexistent) crontab of pgsql.

That's intended. I was asking for an example
of su being "confused" by su.

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