[X-Unix] App launched by my crontab runs as root if Login Window!

[Eric F Crist]

On Jun 2, 2005, at 6:31 PM, Jerry Krinock wrote:

> Here's something to make your day interesting.  Open _your_ crontab  
> and add
> the following command to run in 2 minutes:
>
> /usr/bin/open "/Applications/iCal.app"
>
> Or, some other app.  Then, go to your Fast User Switching Menu or  
> somehow
> show the Login Window.  Then, sit back and relax.

If you're adding this to root's crontab file, you are correct.  When  
I try this as a 'normal' user, I get the following error in /var/log/ 
system.log:

Jun  4 08:45:00 Swordfish /usr/bin/open: kCGErrorRangeCheck : Window  
Server communications from outside of session allowed for root and  
console user only

I cannot get it to work for any users aside from console and root.

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