[gentoo-user] vixie cron: PAM ERROR

[gentoo-user] vixie cron: PAM ERROR

[Grant Edwards]

On a newly installed system, I'm getting error messages from vixie cron
about PAM authentication errors:

Feb 25 09:52:01 alpha crond[23085]: (root) PAM ERROR (Authentication failure)
Feb 25 09:52:01 alpha crond[23085]: (root) FAILED to authorize user with PAM (Authentication failure)
Feb 25 09:53:01 alpha cron[23118]: (root) CMD (echo "cron ran at $(date)" >>/tmp/cron.out)
Feb 25 09:53:01 alpha crond[23122]: (root) PAM ERROR (Authentication failure)
Feb 25 09:53:01 alpha crond[23122]: (root) FAILED to authorize user with PAM (Authentication failure)
Feb 25 09:54:01 alpha cron[23153]: (root) CMD (echo "cron ran at $(date)" >>/tmp/cron.out)
Feb 25 09:54:01 alpha crond[23157]: (root) PAM ERROR (Authentication failure)
Feb 25 09:54:01 alpha crond[23157]: (root) FAILED to authorize user with PAM (Authentication failure)
Feb 25 09:55:01 alpha cron[23160]: (root) CMD (echo "cron ran at $(date)" >>/tmp/cron.out)
Feb 25 09:55:01 alpha crond[23164]: (root) PAM ERROR (Authentication failure)
Feb 25 09:55:01 alpha crond[23164]: (root) FAILED to authorize user with PAM (Authentication failure)

AFAICT, it runs the scheduled command except for the very first time.

I get the same results with normal user's crontab entries.

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Re: [gentoo-user] vixie cron: PAM ERROR

[Nilesh Govindrajan]

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On Tue, Feb 25, 2014 at 9:29 PM, Grant Edwards <grant.b.edwards@gmail.com>wrote:

> On a newly installed system, I'm getting error messages from vixie cron
> about PAM authentication errors:
>
> Feb 25 09:52:01 alpha crond[23085]: (root) PAM ERROR (Authentication
> failure)
> Feb 25 09:52:01 alpha crond[23085]: (root) FAILED to authorize user with
> PAM (Authentication failure)
> Feb 25 09:53:01 alpha cron[23118]: (root) CMD (echo "cron ran at $(date)"
> >>/tmp/cron.out)
> Feb 25 09:53:01 alpha crond[23122]: (root) PAM ERROR (Authentication
> failure)
> Feb 25 09:53:01 alpha crond[23122]: (root) FAILED to authorize user with
> PAM (Authentication failure)
> Feb 25 09:54:01 alpha cron[23153]: (root) CMD (echo "cron ran at $(date)"
> >>/tmp/cron.out)
> Feb 25 09:54:01 alpha crond[23157]: (root) PAM ERROR (Authentication
> failure)
> Feb 25 09:54:01 alpha crond[23157]: (root) FAILED to authorize user with
> PAM (Authentication failure)
> Feb 25 09:55:01 alpha cron[23160]: (root) CMD (echo "cron ran at $(date)"
> >>/tmp/cron.out)
> Feb 25 09:55:01 alpha crond[23164]: (root) PAM ERROR (Authentication
> failure)
> Feb 25 09:55:01 alpha crond[23164]: (root) FAILED to authorize user with
> PAM (Authentication failure)
>
> AFAICT, it runs the scheduled command except for the very first time.
>
> I get the same results with normal user's crontab entries.
>
> --
> Grant Edwards               grant.b.edwards        Yow! Wow!  Look!!  A
> stray
>                                   at               meatball!!  Let's
> interview
>                               gmail.com            it!
>
>
>
Sounds like a pam configuration error. Try this?
http://www.shanison.com/2012/02/08/crontab-error-failed-to-open-pam-security-session-success/
There are a couple of other blogs too on Google search, but all of them
describe 'security error'. Your's seems to be different.

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[gentoo-user] Re: vixie cron: PAM ERROR

[Grant Edwards]

On 2014-02-25, Grant Edwards <grant.b.edwards@gmail.com> wrote:

> On a newly installed system, I'm getting error messages from vixie cron
> about PAM authentication errors:
>
> Feb 25 09:52:01 alpha crond[23085]: (root) PAM ERROR (Authentication failure)
> Feb 25 09:52:01 alpha crond[23085]: (root) FAILED to authorize user with PAM (Authentication failure)

Doh!  That's not vixie-cron, that's chronie.

> Feb 25 09:53:01 alpha cron[23118]: (root) CMD (echo "cron ran at $(date)" >>/tmp/cron.out)

That's vixie-cron, and it's perfectly happy.

I initially installed chronie (since that's what's shown in the
handbook).  When I couldn't get it working, I removed it and emerged
vixie-cron (which I've never had any trouble with).

I forgot to stop chronie before I uninstalled it.

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Grant Edwards               grant.b.edwards        Yow! I think my career
                                  at               is ruined!
                              gmail.com            

Re: [gentoo-user] Re: vixie cron: PAM ERROR

[Nilesh Govindrajan]

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On Tue, Feb 25, 2014 at 10:52 PM, Grant Edwards
<grant.b.edwards@gmail.com>wrote:

> On 2014-02-25, Grant Edwards <grant.b.edwards@gmail.com> wrote:
>
> > On a newly installed system, I'm getting error messages from vixie cron
> > about PAM authentication errors:
> >
> > Feb 25 09:52:01 alpha crond[23085]: (root) PAM ERROR (Authentication
> failure)
> > Feb 25 09:52:01 alpha crond[23085]: (root) FAILED to authorize user with
> PAM (Authentication failure)
>
> Doh!  That's not vixie-cron, that's chronie.
>
> > Feb 25 09:53:01 alpha cron[23118]: (root) CMD (echo "cron ran at
> $(date)" >>/tmp/cron.out)
>
> That's vixie-cron, and it's perfectly happy.
>
> I initially installed chronie (since that's what's shown in the
> handbook).  When I couldn't get it working, I removed it and emerged
> vixie-cron (which I've never had any trouble with).
>
> I forgot to stop chronie before I uninstalled it.
>
> --
> Grant Edwards               grant.b.edwards        Yow! I think my career
>                                   at               is ruined!
>                               gmail.com
>
>
>
Ah. I use vixie-cron on servers and fcron on desktop. Fcron because it
considers timing according to how much time the system was on while not
accounting shutdowns. So PC doesn't miss cron jobs.

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