Mailinglist Archive: opensuse (1945 mails)

[Ben DJ <bendj095124367913213465@xxxxxxxxx>]

Hi,

On Thu, Dec 17, 2009 at 8:28 AM, Jan Ritzerfeld
<suse@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx> wrote:
> The file /etc/pam.d/password-auth does not exist on both 11.1 and 11.2.
> Furthermore, "grep -r password-auth /etc/pam.d/" does not give any hit for
> me. Do you have any line like "...include...password-auth" in your
> /etc/pam.d/crond?

as installed -- i.e., I've never touched it,

cat  /etc/pam.d/crond
 #
 # The PAM configuration file for the cron daemon
 #
 #
 # No PAM authentication called, auth modules not needed
 account    required   pam_access.so
 account    include    password-auth
 session    required   pam_loginuid.so
 session    include    password-auth


> Using a fresh 11.2 installation, crontab works. Besides "crontab" alone is
> not a valid command, there must be some option.

SYNOPSIS
       crontab [-u user] file
       crontab [-u user] [-l | -r | -e] [-i] [-s]

the 2nd line looks like all options are optional -- i.e., 'crontab'
alone is fine.

but, in any case, 'crontab -e' returns exactly the same result as above ...
  Permission denied
  You (root) are not allowed to access to (crontab) because of pam
configuration.

> Well, I do not think that it would be that practical to mention every
> application that uses pam in the pam man page.

I didn't suggest that.

> > What's PAM got to do with cron, and how do I get permission to access it?
>
> It is used for access control.



BenDJ
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