Help with Password and Shadow

Hello.

Our SA retired after 25 years. Now I'm the manager trying to learn as
much as I can. I have some experience, but I need help.

He hasn't been gone a week and I already have an issue.

One of our CRON jobs is sending an error message. I've tracked it down
and see the CRON kicks off a script that utilizes the root login. It
doesn't show a password (of course), but it does reference the shadow
file. We did change our ROOT passwords along with the password of the
retired SA.

My question: Could the CRON be failing because passwd and shadow aren't
in sync? I did a small test and changed the password for my user
account. I then did an ls -l on both the passwd file and the shadow
file. I was surprised to see the shadow file had the timestamp showing
when I changed the password, not the passwd file.

Am I on the right path thinking the issue with the CRON files showing
errors has to do with shadow and passwd not being in sync?

Thanks,

Jerry Allen
The News Tribune
Tacoma, WA
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