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Keep running into this problem. Getting cron failures in /var/cron/log:

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someuser 4151 c Mon Feb 29 12:35:00 1993
! bad user (someuser) Mon Feb 29 12:35:00 1993
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Inevitably, the user has locked themselves (or a malicious someone) out of the server.

Check /etc/shadow for *LK* on the user.

passwd -u someuser to unlock.