Tuesday, December 23, 2003, 7:45:29 AM, you wrote:
JB> Anyone have experience modifying / supplanting the task scheduler
JB> service to run under another user auspice, similar to "chrooting"
JB> under win2k / XP?
JB> If so, how are scheduled tasks affected? Can we still run jobs as
JB> other users, or are they bound to the service account?
JB> Here's the real issue - we need a way to delegate to sys admins
JB> the ability to modify and schedule their own jobs, in their own
JB> user space, possibly invoking system binaries, all without much
JB> security dept. intervention.
I think somebody made a version of cron that runs on windows. It might
be easier to use that than to mess with the task scheduler.
Other than that, there might be a possibility using the AT command,
perhaps recursively. I believe it's part of the 'resource kit'.
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Best regards,
Marius mailto:mahuja (at) c2i (dot) net [email concealed]
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Hello James,
Tuesday, December 23, 2003, 7:45:29 AM, you wrote:
JB> Anyone have experience modifying / supplanting the task scheduler
JB> service to run under another user auspice, similar to "chrooting"
JB> under win2k / XP?
JB> If so, how are scheduled tasks affected? Can we still run jobs as
JB> other users, or are they bound to the service account?
JB> Here's the real issue - we need a way to delegate to sys admins
JB> the ability to modify and schedule their own jobs, in their own
JB> user space, possibly invoking system binaries, all without much
JB> security dept. intervention.
I think somebody made a version of cron that runs on windows. It might
be easier to use that than to mess with the task scheduler.
Other than that, there might be a possibility using the AT command,
perhaps recursively. I believe it's part of the 'resource kit'.
- --
Best regards,
Marius mailto:mahuja (at) c2i (dot) net [email concealed]
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