cron log

[Denver Osborn]

I'm about to get outta here and just one last bit of info... "man 4 shadow" may help you w/ checking passwd expiration, etc...

"Each entry in the shadow file has the form:

username:password:lastchg: min:max:warn: inactive:expire:flag"

thanks and good luck
-denver

[Denver Osborn · Accepted solution]

"passwd -u oradb" should unlock the account... and I'm assuming that this account is an account that had a passwd... so tha password field of /etc/shadow may have been something line *LK*:

if there was no password, then it probably intended to be a non-login account... in that case "passwd -N oradb" will set it to non-login, but will satisfy the cron problem.

refer to man passwd for more details and to verify my syntax. :)

and this is really all I've got...
-denver

[Michael_33]

perfect! thx!