password aging - cron

[Joyce Suganthy]

Hi

An id was disabled because of password aging policy. This id has some cron job running in the server. Will the cron jobs be effected if the id has been disabled?

Regards
Joyce

[Rajeev Shukla]

Yes, if the account get disabled the cron jobs of that userid will also be effected. They wouldn't run untill and unless you enable the user account

[Bill Hassell · Accepted solution]

No. crin does not login. The password process is handled by login but when creon runs, it takes on the user ID of the cron job's owner while it runs, but it does not care if the user can login or not.

[Steven E. Protter]

If the cron job uses the following syntax it will not be affected:

/usr/bin/su - username -c "command"

As part of the root cron.

Thats how I do it to avoid these issues. root cron runs even when the id is locked up due to too many bad authentication attempts.

I don't know how it is for regular users.

SEP

[Bill Hassell]

Sorry, my keyboard doesn't understand how I type the word cron ;-) I tested cron for a normal user, let it run once, then disabled the account and cron ran again for the disabled user with no problem.

[Joyce Suganthy]

Hi Bill,

Thanks a lot for testing the scenario.

Thanks again

regards
Joyce