Public bug reported:
https://help.ubuntu.com/community/CronHowto
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:)
** Affects: ubuntu-docs (Ubuntu)
Importance: Undecided
Status: New
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Title:
CronHowTo ought to mention that the for regular users an entry in
/etc/shadow is required
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