Re: help with cron/rsync error message

[steve%prd.co.uk@localhost (Steve Blinkhorn)]

Thx for picking up my query.  Results are:
1.  cron: in pam_vprompt(): no conversation function
(many, many entries - I should have thought to look here first)


2.  File: /usr/lib/libpam.so

String dump of section '.comment':
  [     0]  GCC: (NetBSD nb4 20200810) 7.5.0


File: /usr/lib/libpam.so.4

String dump of section '.comment':
  [     0]  GCC: (NetBSD nb4 20200810) 7.5.0


File: /usr/lib/libpam.so.4.0

String dump of section '.comment':
  [     0]  GCC: (NetBSD nb2 20150115) 4.8.4


File: /usr/lib/libpam.so.4.1

String dump of section '.comment':
  [     0]  GCC: (NetBSD nb4 20200810) 7.5.0


3.  String dump of section '.comment':
  [     0]  GCC: (NetBSD nb4 20200810) 7.5.0

4.  /usr/lib/security/pam_rootok.so.4: ELF 64-bit LSB shared object, x86-64, version 1 (SYSV), dynamically linked, for NetBSD 9.2, not stripped


5.  -r--r--r--  1 root  wheel  8184 May 12  2021 /usr/lib/security/pam_rootok.so.4

Kind regards,

--
Steve Blinkhorn <steve%prd.co.uk@localhost>

You wrote:
> 
> 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
> 
>