Re: [NetBSD-9.0] cron and pam_authenticate failed

[christos%astron.com@localhost (Christos Zoulas)]

In article <b0cd4fb5-3779-4fc0-1436-0954d9b26cc7%systella.fr@localhost>,
BERTRAND Joël  <joel.bertrand%systella.fr@localhost> wrote:
>Christos Zoulas a écrit :
>> In article <26d69df9-9079-f84e-9c5b-7176721507b0%systella.fr@localhost>,
>> BERTRAND Jo�«l  <joel.bertrand%systella.fr@localhost> wrote:
>>> 	Hello,
>>>
>>> 	On a NetBSD server, I have seen today that cron doesn't launch process
>>> anymore. Thus, I have tried to start cron from a root shell with :
>>>
>>> # cron -n -x sch,proc
>>>
>>> 	Output is :
>>>
>>> [1848] cron started
>>> ...
>>> [1848] do_command(/usr/libexec/atrun, (root,0,0))
>>> [1848] main process returning to work
>>> [23778] child_process('/usr/libexec/atrun')
>>> [1848] Target time=1591463460, sec-to-wait=60
>>> log_it: (CRON 23778) pam_authenticate failed (System error)
>>> [23778] child process done (rc=1), exiting
>>> [1848] sigchld...pid #23778 died, stat=1
>>> [1848] sigchld...no children
>>> [1848] tick(11,19,5,5,6)
>>> ...
>>>
>>> 	If I understand, it tries to start /usr/libexec/atrun and pam subsystem
>>> returns "pam_authenticate failed (System error)". I suppose there is a
>>> bad interaction between cron and pam but I don't know to fix this issue.
>>>
>> 
>> Seems to work here; I would check /etc/pam.d/cron
>
>	I don't have this file. I have checked in /usr/src/obj also. Where is
>this file in source tree ?

/usr/src/etc/pam.d

christos