crontab: can't obtain passwd entry

Corinna Vinschen cygwin@cygwin.com
Tue May 22 13:09:00 GMT 2001


On Tue, May 22, 2001 at 12:46:29PM -0400, Louis Bohm wrote:
> lbohm::500:513:,S-1-5-21-117609710-1993962763-842925246-500:/home/lbohm:/bin/bash
> 
> And here is $CYGWIN:
> lbohm@yoda:/home/lbohm% echo $CYGWIN
> tty notitle glob ntsec binmode
> 
> And the result:
> 
> lbohm@yoda:/home/lbohm% crontab -l
> crontab: can't obtain passwd entry.

And `id' still prints uid=500?

If so, I don't know what's going on. You need to debug that.
An strace could help.

Corinna

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