Re: [NetBSD-9.0] cron and pam_authenticate failed

[BERTRAND Joël <joel.bertrand%systella.fr@localhost>]

Christos Zoulas a écrit :
> 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 Joël  <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

	Thanks. I have searched in /usr/src/obj and directory dist***/etc/pam.d
was empty. Last time I have upgraded my system, I have done a ./build.sh
install=/ and I suppose that these files haven't been copied into
/etc/pam.d.

	Best regards,

	JB