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Would it be possible/hard to write a version of 'at' that executes "right away" to get around ssh username=SYSTEM?
- From: aputerguy <nabble at kosowsky dot org>
- To: cygwin at cygwin dot com
- Date: Sun, 15 Nov 2009 12:27:59 -0800 (PST)
- Subject: Would it be possible/hard to write a version of 'at' that executes "right away" to get around ssh username=SYSTEM?
For a while, I have been using the "trick" of executing scripts via 'at' when
logged in over ssh to get around the limitations of USRNAME=SYSTEM. This is
necessary for running things like vshadow, dosdev, and apparently subinacl.
While I have written a short script that figures out the nearest minute, it
is kludgey and a pita to have to wait until the next minute for at to run.
Which got me thinking that why not write a cywin version of at with better
time granularity so that the command would run essentially right away. This
would then be a poor man's version of 'sudo' though it probably couldn't be
interactive.
I'm not a system programmer so I have no clue how hard this would be but it
seems like it could be very useful...
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