! bad user or setgid failed

[mrjazz]

I have the following phenomenon on one Solaris box:

some cron jobs come back with the following error message in /var/cron/log:

! bad user (user name) or setgid failed (user name)

The user accounts are ok (not locked or something).

Maybe it is a trivial problem but I have no idea at the moment what it could be.

mrjazz

 

[Apricot]

This is usually the result of the user's password having expired when password aging is activated. Cron now checks that the user's password is valid before
executing the job.

Disable password aging, create a new user password, and reenable password aging.