[SunHELP] cron - bad user

[Andreas Putzo]

Hello,

On Thursday 26 August 2004 06:21, Tige D. Chastain wrote:
> I had this exact issue.  Searching on sunsolve.sun.com (and a call with
> Sun Support) reveilled that this is a bug that has been introduced with
> Solaris 8.  The relevant bug IDs are 4898055 and 4858469.

Thanks for info.
Unfortunatly i can't find these bug IDs on sunsolve.sun.com.

regards,
andreas


> On Wed, 2004-08-25 at 07:00, Andreas Putzo wrote:
> > Hello,
> >
> > i am currently setting up a backup system on several machines. Therefor i
> > created the user "backup" with no password, so in /etc/shadow it looks
> > like this:
> > backup:*LK*:::::::
> > Then i created a crontab for user backup to let him do the backups every
> > night.
> > Now it becomes curious: This setup works fine on every machine, *except*
> > one. I found in /var/cron/log this:
> > ! bad user (backup) Wed Aug 25 12:30:00 2004
> > I googled a bit and found out, that locked out users not allowed to use
> > cron, so i changed in /etc/shadow the *LK* with NP and it worked.
> > But i don't get, why the other machines didn't complain about the fact,
> > that 'backup' is 'locked out' on the system.
> > /etc/cron.d/cron.deny are identically on all machines.
> > It's working know, so it is not a big problem at all, but i really want
> > to know, why the behaviour differs.
> > All systems are running solaris 8.
> > If you have any hints, please let me know.
> >
> > kindly regards,
> >
> > Andreas
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