cron is not running the jobs of a non-root user
Issue
When a cron job configured for a specific non-root user, it fails to run.
An examination of /var/log/cron shows that the edits are recognized e.g.
Jun 11 16:42:47 localhost crontab[8721]: (root) BEGIN EDIT (testuser)
Jun 11 16:42:49 localhost crontab[8721]: (root) REPLACE (testuser)
Jun 11 16:42:49 localhost crontab[8721]: (root) END EDIT (testuser)
But the jobs within it are not actually run. If they ran, a line like this would appear:
Jun 11 16:42:01 localhost CROND[8628]: (testuser) CMD (date >> /tmp/testuser.date)
Environment
Red Hat Entreprise Linux 6
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