Pierre, Windows Task Manager reports the user as SYSTEM for all cygrunsrv processes and their children (cron, inetd, etc.). Interestingly enough, I regenerated the /etc/passwd entry for my user login on my Windows XP Pro box at work and the UID field changed from what it was before (after I sent the initial problem email to the Cygwin list). Then, I rebooted and all Cygwin related services (cygrunsrvs) were now identified as unknown user 400 in ps -ef. As one would then expect, now I do not have any capabilities associated with these services, including ftp, telnet, and IPC.
My /etc/passwd file has the SYSTEM, Administrators and my personal account listed as: SYSTEM:*:18:544:,S-1-5-18:: Administrators:*:544:544:,S-1-5-32-544:: winwa02:unused_by_nt/2000/xp:70656:10513:Winch Jr., Wayne S,U-TANT-A01\winwa02,S-1-5-21-2129867641-919698055-327642922-60656:/home /winwa02:/bin/bash My company's domain is TANT-A01 and my username is winwa02. Also, if I type passwd, then I get the following response: $ passwd passwd: unknown user winwa02 As you can see, my login entry is in /etc/passwd, but I seem to be logged in as a different user, even though id reports: $ id uid=70656(winwa02) gid=10513(Domain Users) groups=544(Administrators),545(Users),143344(442-SC-CRO-R),106908(98-Sit e),10513(Domain Users),162415(NASiteGroups),169978(North American Sites) Regards, Wayne >Wayne, > >The only reason why a Cygwin process runs with uid 400 >is that its SID was not found in /etc/passwd when first >starting from Windows (you can observe that by temporarily >renaming /etc/passwd and starting a fresh Cygwin process). >It's stange that this happens only for one cygrunsrv process > >Please use the Windows Task Manager ("Processes" tab) and >report the User of the strange cygrunsrv, according to Windows. > >Pierre -- Unsubscribe info: http://cygwin.com/ml/#unsubscribe-simple Problem reports: http://cygwin.com/problems.html Documentation: http://cygwin.com/docs.html FAQ: http://cygwin.com/faq/