You (olivares) are not allowed to access to (crontab) because of pam configuration.
Antonio Olivares
olivares14031 at yahoo.com
Tue Mar 24 22:15:03 UTC 2009
Dear fellow testers,
It has been a while and I have been having troubles editing my crontab.
Even root cannot access it :(
This is telling me something. I wonder what I need to do to get this fixed.
[root at riohigh ~]# crontab -l
Authentication service cannot retrieve authentication info
You (root) are not allowed to access to (crontab) because of pam configuration.
[root at riohigh ~]# exit
logout
[olivares at riohigh ~]$ /etc/pam.d/system-auth
bash: /etc/pam.d/system-auth: Permission denied
[olivares at riohigh ~]$ su -
Password:
[root at riohigh ~]# cat /etc/pam.d/system-auth
#%PAM-1.0
# This file is auto-generated.
# User changes will be destroyed the next time authconfig is run.
auth required pam_env.so
auth sufficient pam_unix.so nullok try_first_pass
auth requisite pam_succeed_if.so uid >= 500 quiet
auth required pam_deny.so
account required pam_unix.so
account sufficient pam_localuser.so
account sufficient pam_succeed_if.so uid < 500 quiet
account required pam_permit.so
password requisite pam_cracklib.so try_first_pass retry=3
password sufficient pam_unix.so sha512 shadow nullok try_first_pass use_authtok
password required pam_deny.so
session optional pam_keyinit.so revoke
session required pam_limits.so
session [success=1 default=ignore] pam_succeed_if.so service in crond quiet use_uid
session required pam_unix.so
[root at riohigh ~]# /etc/pam.d/crontab
-bash: /etc/pam.d/crontab: No such file or directory
[root at riohigh ~]# cat /etc/pam.d/crontab
cat: /etc/pam.d/crontab: No such file or directory
[root at riohigh ~]# dmesg | grep 'avc'
You have new mail in /var/spool/mail/root
[root at riohigh ~]# exit
Thanks for any help/advice/suggestions which are offered to see if this problem goes away.
Regards,
Antonio
More information about the fedora-test-list
mailing list