Re: help with cron/rsync error message

[RVP <rvp%SDF.ORG@localhost>]

On Tue, 15 Nov 2022, Steve Blinkhorn wrote:

> the cron/rsyncd.conf etc. config in place.  I checked that everything
> ran normally back in July, but now I find /var/log/cron is full of
> lines like this:
>
> Nov 14 22:02:00 trafalgar cron[3913]: (CRON) pam_authenticate failed
> (System error)

PAM System errors should've been logged. What's the output of these:

```
$ fgrep cron /var/log/messages
$ readelf -p .comment /usr/sbin/cron /usr/lib/libpam.so*
$ readelf -p .comment /usr/lib/security/pam_rootok.so.4
$ file /usr/lib/security/pam_rootok.so.4
$ ls -l /usr/lib/security/pam_rootok.so.4
```

-RVP