Re: at log: ! bad user (testuser)

From: Allen Belk (allen.belk@usm.edu)
Date: Tue Oct 29 2002 - 20:23:18 EST


Managers,
    Thanks anyway but I found the solution in the archives. I apologize for
not using them before I mailed the list. The problem was due to the fact
that the password for testuser had expired (we use password aging).
Changing the password fixed the problem.

Thanks,

Allen

 | Allen Belk, Systems Administrator III
 | University of Southern Mississippi
 | Office of Technology Resources
 | allen.belk@usm.edu - 601.266.5973

----- Original Message -----
From: "Allen Belk" <allen.belk@usm.edu>
To: <sunmanagers@sunmanagers.org>
Sent: Tuesday, October 29, 2002 7:13 PM
Subject: at log: ! bad user (testuser)

> Managers,
> I am having some problems with the at command. When I issue the
> following at the command line of user testuser
>
> $ echo "touch test_file" | at -m HH:MM
>
> test_file is never created. On top of that, no email (-m) is ever sent
and
> the following shows up in /var/cron/log
>
> > CMD: 1035939360.a
> > testuser 4421 a Tue Oct 29 18:56:00 2002
> ! bad user (testuser) Tue Oct 29 18:56:00 2002
> < testuser 4421 a Tue Oct 29 18:56:00 2002 rc=1
>
> I have attempted to recreate the same environment on a newly created
> account, newuser, in order to test at functionality. Everything works
fine
> for newuser. Even adding testuser to /usr/lib/cron/at.allow does not fix
> the problem. testuser and newuser were created the same way
> (useradd -s"blahblahblah" -s /bin/ksh -m <username>. I have checked the
> following items to see if they made any difference.
>
> - permissions on home directory
> - password age
> - evironment variables set in .profile
> - groups that testuser belongs to
>
> None of these seem to have any effect on testuser's inability to run at
> jobs. If anyone out there knows what I might be doing wrong, I would
> appreciate any comments/suggestions you may have to offer.
>
> Thanks,
>
> Allen Belk
>
> | Allen Belk, Systems Administrator III
> | University of Southern Mississippi
> | Office of Technology Resources
> | allen.belk@usm.edu - 601.266.5973
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