Crontab in root not working because root user is locked

 

To get around this in Linux comment out 

"account    required   pam_access.so" 
from /etc/pam.d/cond

# cat /etc/pam.d/crond 

#

# The PAM configuration file for the cron daemon

#

auth       sufficient pam_rootok.so

auth       required   pam_stack.so service=system-auth

auth       required   pam_env.so

account    required   pam_stack.so service=system-auth

# account    required   pam_access.so

session    required   pam_limits.so

session    required   pam_loginuid.so

To get around this in Solaris comment out 

"cron    account required        pam_unix_account.so.1"

from 

cat /etc/pam.conf 

#
# cron service (explicit because of non-usage of pam_roles.so.1)
#
# cron    account required        pam_unix_account.so.1
#
# Default definition for Account management
# Used when service name is not explicitly mentioned for account management
#