You (olivares) are not allowed to access to (crontab) because of pam configuration.

[Antonio Olivares]

Dear fellow testers,

It has been a while and I have been having troubles editing my crontab.

Even root cannot access it :(

This is telling me something.  I wonder what I need to do to get this fixed.


[root@riohigh ~]# crontab -l                                                    

Authentication service cannot retrieve authentication info
You (root) are not allowed to access to (crontab) because of pam configuration.
[root@riohigh ~]# exit                                                         
logout                                                                         



[olivares@riohigh ~]$ /etc/pam.d/system-auth
bash: /etc/pam.d/system-auth: Permission denied
[olivares@riohigh ~]$ su -                     
Password:                                      
[root@riohigh ~]# cat /etc/pam.d/system-auth
#%PAM-1.0                                   
# This file is auto-generated.              
# User changes will be destroyed the next time authconfig is run.
auth        required      pam_env.so                             
auth        sufficient    pam_unix.so nullok try_first_pass      
auth        requisite     pam_succeed_if.so uid >= 500 quiet     
auth        required      pam_deny.so                            

account     required      pam_unix.so
account     sufficient    pam_localuser.so
account     sufficient    pam_succeed_if.so uid < 500 quiet
account     required      pam_permit.so                    

password    requisite     pam_cracklib.so try_first_pass retry=3
password    sufficient    pam_unix.so sha512 shadow nullok try_first_pass use_authtok     
                                                                     
password    required      pam_deny.so                                           

session     optional      pam_keyinit.so revoke
session     required      pam_limits.so        
session     [success=1 default=ignore] pam_succeed_if.so service in crond quiet use_uid   
                                                                     
session     required      pam_unix.so                                           
[root@riohigh ~]# /etc/pam.d/crontab                                            
-bash: /etc/pam.d/crontab: No such file or directory                            
[root@riohigh ~]# cat /etc/pam.d/crontab                                        
cat: /etc/pam.d/crontab: No such file or directory                              
[root@riohigh ~]# dmesg | grep 'avc'                                            
You have new mail in /var/spool/mail/root                                       
[root@riohigh ~]# exit


Thanks for any help/advice/suggestions which are offered to see if this problem goes
away.

Regards,


Antonio