CronHowTo ought to mention that the for regular users an entry in /etc/shadow is required
Bug #845383 reported by
Chris Morrow
This bug affects 1 person
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| ubuntu-docs (Ubuntu) |
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Bug Description
https:/
talks a lot about cron, and how to use it and how to enable it for 'all user accounts'. It doesn't mention that an account entry in /etc/shadow is required for the user's crontab to be processed though. For a utility user (like say... mailman) having no entry in shadow means a remote login is essentially impossible. Also, no entry in shadow means mailman crons never run :(
it'd be nice if the docs noted this as a requirement:)
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| Jeremy Bícha (jbicha) wrote | #1 |
| Changed in ubuntu-docs (Ubuntu): | |
| status: | New → Invalid |
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Chris, thanks for reporting this, however you can use the same account you use for Launchpad to edit help.ubuntu.
I'm going to close this bug since we use Launchpad to track bugs with the system installed help or the non-community-