C 7 Anacron Issue

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Has anyone else seen a problem recently (like, the last few weeks) with anacron? We’ve got a couple of recently-built systems and we’re seeing Mar 4 17:20:01 crond[25767]: (root) PAM ERROR (Failure setting user credentials)
Mar 4 17:20:01 crond[25767]: (root) FAILED to authorize user with PAM (Failure setting user credentials)

mark

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  • mark wrote:
    More data: I started debugging from the PAM end, and now I’m more confused. I set debug in /etc/pam.d/cron, and when it runs, I see it hit every line in /etc/security/access.conf, and authentication fails.

    +:unbound:cron crond was already in the file, and at the top, after looking at the rpm, I added
    +:root:cron crond :0 tty1 tty2 tty3 tty4 tty5 tty6

    and it just strolls past in its listwalk, and says nope. I did try installing pamtester, and that’s completely useless – even with -v, it just tells me it failed.

    Any clues, folks?

    mark