On Sunday March 13 2005 16:21, Nicos Gollan wrote: > What first irritated me was that after installing logcheck, I saw this > message from cron: > > Mar 12 20:23:01 chicago CRON[8427]: Authentication service cannot retrieve > authentication info. > > every 15 minutes. I'm rather sure it's caused by the exim cronjob because > the time matches and if I try su'ing to mail or daemon, I get: > > # su mail > su: Authentication service cannot retrieve authentication info. > (Ignored) Self-reply: Apparently, the message is due to the mail and daemon users having had no entry in /etc/shadow. Adding a passwordless login there fixed it. Now, if I opened up my system for attacks, please let me know :-) -- Got Backup? Jabber: Shadowdancer at jabber.fsinf.de
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