Cron jobs not running & showing "bad user" in logs /var/cron/log

My user informed that the application user (locked) account's cron jobs were not running even after initial setup/ allowing in cron.allow file by system administrator. When I checked the log file (/var/cron/log) in Solaris 10, I could see some entries like:

>  CMD: /bin/touch /tmp/kjsdfhsdjk
>  appuser 4193 c Wed May 13 03:27:00 2009
! bad user (appuser) Wed May 13 03:27:00 2009
<  appuser 4193 c Wed May 13 03:27:00 2009 rc=1
>  CMD: /bin/touch /tmp/kjsdfhsdjk
>  appuser 4252 c Wed May 13 03:28:00 2009
! bad user (appuser) Wed May 13 03:28:00 2009
<  appuser 4252 c Wed May 13 03:28:00 2009 rc=1

Solution was to change "*LK*" to "*LOCKED*" in /etc/shadow file.

# diff shadow shadow-ori
136c136
< appuser:*LOCKED*:14293::::::
---
> appuser:*LK*:14293::::::

This change happened in Solaris 10 only because prior to Solaris 10, the locked accounts used to have "*LK*" in /etc/shadow entries.


If in NIS, then make the maps again by running /var/yp/make. The following is applicable ONLY & ONLY in case of NIS. (Think twice before doing this!!)

# cd /var/yp; ./make
updated netid
pushed netid
updated passwd.adjunct
`group.adjunct.time' is up to date.
pushed passwd.adjunct
`group.adjunct.time' is up to date.
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