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Re: Problem with bash script running under NT AUTHORITY\SYSTEM


On Wed, Dec 2, 2009 at 11:50 PM, Larry Hall (Cygwin)  wrote:
> Remember, SYSTEM is not you.

Unless Louis XIV was a Cygwin user, in which case he might have said

Le systéme, c'est moi!

On Thu, Dec 3, 2009 at 5:02 PM, Almo <> wrote:
>
> Ok, it's that SYSTEM running through cygwin has no access to the disk.
>
> So someone else wrote the script to run in DOS, and we've dropped the idea
> of scripting scheduled tasks with cygwin. Unless I can figure out how to get
> SYSTEM access to the disk through it. :)

Perhaps  NT AUTHORITY/SYSTEM should be given access rights to the
appropriate directory (right click, Properties, Security). It's just
an "account" like any other.
I'm somewhat puzzled though. On my machine, SYSTEM has full access to
C:. Is this a network drive ?

Csaba
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