[PLUG] logwatch report user account has expired
Josh
josh at emediatedesigns.com
Tue Apr 18 21:45:07 UTC 2006
alan wrote:
> On Tue, 18 Apr 2006, Josh wrote:
>
>> Hello and happy post Easter to all.
>>
>> In my quest to build a new server I noticed I stopped receiving
>> emails from logwatch. Hmm, was the cron not working? So, I went off
>> and ran the script in the /etc/cron.daily and it reports many lines of:
>>
>> crond[14463]: User account has expired
>>
>> Then continues with other information. I think I either have
>> permissions wrong or the users accounts that I need not to expire
>> have. I have been searching about the net and my dusty mind to find
>> an answer but no avail. I'm looking for a way to tell the status of a
>> user account? Is it expired? I have yet to find a simple way. Or is
>> this really the problem? Perhaps it is something more basic. It
>> appears that my cron jobs are not running. Still confirming this but
>> at least logwatch is complaining about expired accounts.
>>
>> Thoughts? Advice?
>
> Look in /etc/shadow and see what system accounts have expiration dates
> on them.
>
>
> The format of the shadow file is described in:
>
> man 5 shadow
>
> Hope that helps.
>
Well, I went through the shadow file and still don't see anything that
would cause it. I have one Fedora 1 Machine that is working fine and a
CentOS 4.2 that is not. The latter was working until 7 days ago. I can
see that in the cron logs. I have very little users on the new machine
so it is easy to look at them. They appear to have the same settings as
the old machine.
I don't even know which accounts are expired. The message repeats for a
long time. Like 30-50 times. then it goes on with other logwatch reports.
Josh
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