crontab problems with pam

[Tomas Mraz]

On Thu, 2008-12-11 at 16:42 -0800, Antonio Olivares wrote:
> Dear fellow testers,
> 
> I have a crontab on my machine which plays music when the janitor(s)
> clean my room in the afternoon.  It plays music from a playlist that I
> have.  I tried to modify the times when the music starts playing and
> stops, but (PAM) got in the way :(
> 
> [olivares at riohigh ~]$ crontab -l
> 
> Authentication service cannot retrieve authentication info
> You (olivares) are not allowed to access to (crontab) because of pam
> configuration.
> 
> 
> I wonder what happened, I could edit it and modify it and it would
> work, but not tonight.  What can I do to get the functionality back?
> 
Do you see anything suspicious/related in /var/log/syslog? And what
about SELinux denials?

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Tomas Mraz
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