pam.d/crond example

[Felix Dominguez]

------------- file contents -----------------
#
# The PAM configuration file for the cron daemon
#
#
# No PAM authentication called, auth modules not needed
account    required   pam_access.so
account    include    password-auth
session    required   pam_loginuid.so
session    include    password-auth
auth       include    password-auth
------------- file contents -----------------


is there a reason for the "auth include .."

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Felix

[Tomas Mraz]

On Čt, 2016-06-09 at 11:26 -0500, Felix Dominguez wrote:
>  ------------- file contents -----------------
>  #
>  # The PAM configuration file for the cron daemon
>  #
>  #
>  # No PAM authentication called, auth modules not needed
>  account    required   pam_access.so
>  account    include    password-auth
>  session    required   pam_loginuid.so
>  session    include    password-auth
>  auth       include    password-auth
>  ------------- file contents -----------------
>  
>  
>  is there a reason for the "auth include .." 
Actually the comment is wrong. Although there is no pam_authenticate
call, there are pam_setcred calls which use the auth stack.

I'll fix the comment.
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