getprpw lockout

[j773303]

0001000 4 exceeded unsuccessful login attemtps
0000010 6 admin lock
0000001 7 password is a *

For the above meaning of the lockout-value, does anyone knows the difference of "disable" and "lock"? If user1 disable or lock, how about the user1 cron job is still workable?

Thanks,

[Jaime Bolanos Rojas. · Accepted solution]

j773303,

Disable is when the sys admin on purpose or a script will lock an account, and a lock account is when somebody by mistake type the password wrong several times, then the account got locked.

If a user is disable or lockout he should not be able to run the cron jobs, when you trust the system and you take a look at the logs, you will see that a trusted system is actually aware of what user run what cron job.

Regards,

Jaime.

[j773303]

In trusted system,
I've try to login user1 with unsuccessfully login 3 times and lock account. But user1 cron job still running after account disabled. Does anyone has the ideas what's the definition of account disable/lock ? Is it just means user1 can't ftp/login/telnet?

Thanks in advanced.

[Patrick Wallek]

Correct. Even if the account is disabled or locked, cron jobs will STILL run. Cron does NOT actually log in, so the account status is irrelevent.