crond + pam very noisy

Alexander Dalloz alexander.dalloz at uni-bielefeld.de
Wed Sep 29 16:02:39 UTC 2004


Am Mi, den 29.09.2004 schrieb Stephen J. Smoogen um 17:34:

> My logs are getting filled with:
> 
> crond[27300]: pam_succeed_if: requirement "uid < 100" was met by user
> "root"
> crond[27303]: pam_succeed_if: requirement "uid < 100" was met by user
> "root"
> 
> Not sure which job is doing this, but it is getting noisy.. I dont
> want to think what 2000 machines will do to our central mail and log
> servers :).
> 
> Any ideas how I can track this down to better bugzilla?

> Stephen J Smoogen.

The log entries are cause by /etc/pam.d/system-auth -->

account     sufficient    /lib/security/$ISA/pam_succeed_if.so uid < 100

Check /var/log/secure on how often this entry occurs. Is it caused by
cron hourly?

Alexander


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