On a newly installed system, I'm getting error messages from vixie cron
about PAM authentication errors:
Feb 25 09:52:01 alpha crond[23085]: (root) PAM ERROR (Authentication failure)
Feb 25 09:52:01 alpha crond[23085]: (root) FAILED to authorize user with PAM
(Authentication failure)
Feb 25 09:53:01 alpha cron[23118]: (root) CMD (echo "cron ran at $(date)"
>>/tmp/cron.out)
Feb 25 09:53:01 alpha crond[23122]: (root) PAM ERROR (Authentication failure)
Feb 25 09:53:01 alpha crond[23122]: (root) FAILED to authorize user with PAM
(Authentication failure)
Feb 25 09:54:01 alpha cron[23153]: (root) CMD (echo "cron ran at $(date)"
>>/tmp/cron.out)
Feb 25 09:54:01 alpha crond[23157]: (root) PAM ERROR (Authentication failure)
Feb 25 09:54:01 alpha crond[23157]: (root) FAILED to authorize user with PAM
(Authentication failure)
Feb 25 09:55:01 alpha cron[23160]: (root) CMD (echo "cron ran at $(date)"
>>/tmp/cron.out)
Feb 25 09:55:01 alpha crond[23164]: (root) PAM ERROR (Authentication failure)
Feb 25 09:55:01 alpha crond[23164]: (root) FAILED to authorize user with PAM
(Authentication failure)
AFAICT, it runs the scheduled command except for the very first time.
I get the same results with normal user's crontab entries.
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