14Mar 2007 How do I get ldap users crontab working? by troyski ⋅ Leave a Comment This question came as a result of the error: – /usr/sbin/cron[pid]: (username) ORPHAN (no passwd entry) …in the /var/log/messages file. This arrived after an ldap user (username) created a crontab entry with crontab -e, but the entry did not run. Read More →