crontabs jobs fail when admin account password is expired

Hugo_vd_Kooij — Thu, 29 Jun 2023 15:01:36 GMT

HI,

Today I spend a good amount of time in tracking down an issue with our backups. On some SmartCenters the backup job was not running anymore.

As it turns out your entries in crontab run as admin so admin must beable to login.

If your password is expired then those crontab jobs will not work and you will see some authentication issues in /var/log/cron instead.

Resetting the password resolves the issue.

So there is a seriuos operational side effect wiith password expiration that you should be aware off.

Hope this helps other shortening their troubleshooting..

Re: crontabs jobs fail when admin account password is expired

PhoneBoy — Thu, 29 Jun 2023 17:51:48 GMT

Thanks for sharing that tidbit.

JozkoMrkvicka — Thu, 29 Jun 2023 19:59:57 GMT

There is even sk about that.