Why RHEL 6.x crond requires non-root users to have a home directory while RHEL 5.x does not?

Solution Unverified - Updated 2024-08-06T05:03:20+00:00 -

Issue

Cron jobs in RHEL 6.x will fail to run if the executer is non-root user and the user doesn't have a home directory.
Behaviour is different for non root users between RHEL 5.x and RHEL 6.x.

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