Bug 308799

Summary:	sys-process/fcron-3.0.5: fcrontab -e systab fails with PAM enabled
Product:	Gentoo Linux	Reporter:	Dmitry Karasik <dkarasik>
Component:	Current packages	Assignee:	Diego Elio Pettenò (RETIRED) <flameeyes>
Status:	RESOLVED FIXED
Severity:	normal	CC:	wschlich
Priority:	High
Version:	unspecified
Hardware:	All
OS:	Linux
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Package list:		Runtime testing required:	---

Description Dmitry Karasik 2010-03-10 09:01:17 UTC

With the default PAM configuration file shipped with fcron-3.0.5 running: fcrontab -e systab produces:

03:47:30 Could not init PAM account management (10): User not known to the underlying authentication module

Comment 1 Diego Elio Pettenò (RETIRED) gentoo-dev

2010-03-11 12:22:28 UTC

Uhm looking into it… not sure why it passed here, but I'm not surprised given the kind of PAM mess I have, will create a vanilla container to test this out, thanks for reporting!

Comment 2 Diego Elio Pettenò (RETIRED) gentoo-dev

2010-03-11 12:59:56 UTC

Okay I guess this is half-way an upstream problem: it tries to authenticate the account of systab which obviously does not exist (it's a pseudo-user). I can fix this quickly for Linux-PAM users, but it will be a problem for OpenPAM users (it would use pam_succeed_if)…

Looking into a possible alternative right now…

Comment 3 Diego Elio Pettenò (RETIRED) gentoo-dev

2010-03-11 13:10:21 UTC

Okay the proper fix looks like it's definitely easy, will test it out, send upstream and add 3.0.5-r1 :)

Comment 4 Diego Elio Pettenò (RETIRED) gentoo-dev

2010-03-11 13:18:16 UTC

Fixed as of 3.0.5-r1, thanks for reporting! :)