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Hardening the Scheduler Service Dec 23 2003 03:45PM
James Bowman (jim drexel edu) (1 replies)
Re: Hardening the Scheduler Service Dec 27 2003 04:09PM
Marius Huse Jacobsen (mahuja c2i net)
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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'.

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Best regards,
Marius mailto:mahuja (at) c2i (dot) net [email concealed]

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