Fahad Ahmad wrote:
> I am facing the exact same problem as the original poster on all my
> debian lenny servers.  The servers that are still on etch with the exact
> same pam configurations have no problems running jobs
> as normal users.
> 
> Here is the strace output from cron:

*snip*

>     443 write(2, "\nPermission denied\n"..., 19) = 19
>     444 exit_group(1)                           = ?

As Justin indicated, something is wrong with your file permissions.
Please post the output of the following commands (run as root):

$ ls -l /usr/bin/crontab
$ ls -ld /var/spool/cron
$ ls -ld /var/spool/cron/crontabs
$ ls -l /var/spool/cron/crontabs/*


Christian




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