Bug 126094 - LDAP accounts cannot run cron jobs
Summary: LDAP accounts cannot run cron jobs
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Status: CLOSED DEFERRED
Alias: None
Product: Red Hat Enterprise Linux 2.1
Classification: Red Hat
Component: vixie-cron
Version: 2.1
Hardware: All
OS: Linux
medium
medium
Target Milestone: ---
Assignee: Marcela Mašláňová
QA Contact: Brock Organ
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TreeView+ depends on / blocked
 
Reported: 2004-06-15 22:41 UTC by Nat G
Modified: 2007-11-30 22:06 UTC (History)
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Last Closed: 2007-07-16 13:42:18 UTC
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Red Hat Bugzilla 64379 0 medium CLOSED user cron job not running for users in LDAP directory 2021-02-22 00:41:40 UTC

Description Nat G 2004-06-15 22:41:05 UTC
Description of problem:
Accounts defined in LDAP are not able to run cron jobs.  They can be
created, but upon time to run, the following message appears in
/var/log/cron:

Jun  9 14:31:00 hourhl99 crond[1458]: (nguyto01) ORPHAN (no passwd entry)

I would expect cron to find accounts via NSS definitions (files ldap)
rather than just files.  Unsure if this is also valid for NIS accounts.


How reproducible: always


Steps to Reproduce:
1. Set up system to use LDAP accounts
2. Define an LDAP account and create a cron entry
3. Watch /var/log/cron when time comes - no job runs, log entry made

Comment 1 Jason Vas Dias 2004-08-03 20:48:22 UTC
This is fixed in vixie-cron-4.1-+ .


Comment 3 Richard Bullington-McGuire 2006-03-02 21:36:22 UTC
I ran into this behavior in Red Hat Enterprise Linux 3 R6 today.

Mar  1 10:46:01 cauldron crond[885]: (rbulling) ORPHAN (no passwd entry)

The workaround in bug 64379 worked for me (stop crond, restart nscd, start crond):

https://bugzilla.redhat.com/bugzilla/show_bug.cgi?id=64379

A cron job ran for me just fine once I'd done that.

Comment 4 Marcela Mašláňová 2007-07-16 13:42:18 UTC
This problem will be resolved in a future major release of Red Hat Enterprise
Linux. Red Hat does not currently plan to provide a resolution for this in a Red
Hat Enterprise Linux update for currently deployed systems.

With the goal of minimizing risk of change for deployed systems, and in response
to customer and partner requirements, Red Hat takes a conservative approach when
evaluating changes for inclusion in maintenance updates for currently deployed
products. The primary objectives of update releases are to enable new hardware
platform support and to resolve critical defects. 


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