crontab: can't obtain passwd entry
Louis Bohm
lbohm@lightbridge.com
Tue May 22 08:22:00 GMT 2001
This is what I get when I do id:
uid=500(root) gid=513(None)
groups=0(Everyone),513(None),544(Administrators),545(Users)
I am not in a domain just a standalone win2k pro machine.
Here is a copy of my passwd file too:
Everyone:*:0:0:,S-1-1-0::
SYSTEM:*:18:18:,S-1-5-18::
Administrators:*:544:544:,S-1-5-32-544::
ftpuser:*:1002:513:ftp,S-1-5-21-117609710-1993962763-842925246-1002:/home/ftpuser:/bin/sh
Guest:*:501:513:,S-1-5-21-117609710-1993962763-842925246-501:/home/Guest:/bin/sh
IUSR_YODA:*:1000:513:Internet Guest
Account,S-1-5-21-117609710-1993962763-842925246-1000:/home/IUSR_YODA:/bin/sh
IWAM_YODA:*:1001:513:Launch IIS Process
Account,S-1-5-21-117609710-1993962763-842925246-1001:/home/IWAM_YODA:/bin/sh
root:*:500:513:lbohm-U,lbohm,S-1-5-21-117609710-1993962763-842925246-500:/home/root:/bin/sh
The user lbohm is a copy of the NT Administrators account will all the
permissions.
Louis
Corinna Vinschen wrote:
> On Tue, May 22, 2001 at 08:23:04AM -0400, Louis Bohm wrote:
> > I did do a mkpasswd -l > /etc/passwd and a mkgroup -l > /etc/group. After I
> > did that I tried the crontab -e and sill had the problem.
> >
> > Then I tried to do something smart, or so I though, and run gdb crontab.
> > Unfortunately gdb has problems with crontab.
>> The offending code in crontab is:
>> struct passwd *pw = getpwuid (geteuid ());
> if (! pw)
> return eprint ("can't obtain passwd entry.");
>> so your current uid is not in /etc/passwd.
>> if you call `id' you should get an output like that:
>> uid=1003(louis) gid=513(None) ...
>> if that is not what you get, your passwd is still incorrect.
> Are you a perhaps a domain user? In that case `mkpasswd -l'
> will not help. Use `mkpasswd -d' to get domain users.
>> Corinna
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