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Re: Running ssh from procmail
I'm running it using fetchmail -d #.
Peter
----- Original Message -----
From: "Brian Dessent"
To: <cygwin@cygwin.com>
Sent: Tuesday, June 15, 2004 9:05 AM
Subject: Re: Running ssh from procmail -#- MailID:TNFA
> Peter Wisnovsky wrote:
>
> > socket: Operation not permitted
> > ssh: connect to host #.#.#.# port 22: Operation not permitted
>
> How are you scheduling fetchmail to run? From cron? If it's running
> from cron, then it will be running as the SYSTEM user. It will be
> impersonating your regular user account, but since it's launched from a
> service it will actually be the SYSTEM account that owns the process.
> I've read that on recent server versions (e.g. Win2k3) the SYSTEM
> account has less privileges assigned to it by default, one of which
> might be "access the network." If that's the case then it would explain
> why it cannot gethostbyaddr() to resolve the hostname, and why the
> socket functions fail with "operation not permitted" if supplied a
> dotted-quad. Try adding that privilege, or have crun run as the
> "NetworkService" instead of "LocalServer" or whatever it's called.
>
> Brian
>
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