On Wed, Jul 24, 2013 at 8:32 AM, Jan Stary <[email protected]> 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
~
% echo $USER
~
luca
% crontab -l
~
crontab: no crontab for pgsql
However I could have totally missed the point...but it's an interesting one.
Luca
