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[Discuss] pulse files in /tmp on RHEL 6 - followup



On Sat, Mar 21, 2015 at 8:02 AM, Jerry Feldman <gaf at blu.org> wrote:
> The root passwords on
> these systems were expired and this prevents cron from executing on a
> user with an expired password.

Ouch. Yet another reason to avoid having 'root' have a password.

Is it even possible to configure RH for root to a UID but not an
interactive account, like in Ubuntu ?


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