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Fact-O-Tron - Fact ID 106

Solaris cron doesn't like running jobs for users with '*LK*' as the password. In /var/cron log you get a "bad user" error. Change the password or set it to '*' and it should run again. This change in behaviour appears to have been introduced with a security patch...grrr
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Personal experience and http://www.netsys.com/sunmgr/1999-04/msg00033.html

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