On Thu, Sep 03, 2009 at 10:42:57AM -0400, Jerry wrote: > On Thu, 3 Sep 2009 09:41:07 -0400 > stan <st...@panix.com> wrote: > > > OK, I found in the cron man page the following: > > > > > > Before running a command from a per-account crontab file, cron > > > checks the status of the account with pam(3) and skips the command > > > if the account is unavailable, e.g., locked out or expired. > > > > > > So, now the question is, how do I unlock that user? > > > > > This gets strnager. I found the pw cammand, which should do thatm but: > > > > pnoc# pw unlock cricket > > pw: user 'cricket' is not locked > > > > So, how come: > > > > pnoc# su - cricket > > This account is currently not available. > > Something appears to be broken. You might try a new installation. The > port creates the user and group if it does not exist.
No, this is the expected behaviour when an account has /sbin/nologin as
its shell. Matthew has already offered a solution to this problem,
several replies ago.
As root:
# su -m cricket
Which will give you a basic prompt belonging to cricket. Then:
$ crontab -e
Or, in one command, as root:
# crontab -u cricket -e
In either case, you shoule be left with an editor session in which you
can create or modify user cricket's crontab. If not, tell us the error
message.
Dan
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