Re: cron and pam

[Rick Pasotto <rick@niof.net>]

On Thu, Sep 13, 2007 at 10:50:39PM +0200, martin f krafft wrote:
> also sprach Rick Pasotto <rick@niof.net> [2007.09.13.2109 +0200]:
> > Since this morning's upgrade (to testing) logcheck has been reporting
> > lots and lots of cron jobs opening and closing sessions. For example:
> > 
> > Sep 13 14:10:01 mnr CRON[24422]: pam_unix(cron:session): session opened for user www-data by (uid=0)
> > Sep 13 14:10:01 mnr CRON[24424]: pam_unix(cron:session): session opened for user root by (uid=0)
> > Sep 13 14:10:01 mnr CRON[24422]: pam_unix(cron:session): session closed for user www-data
> > Sep 13 14:10:01 mnr CRON[24424]: pam_unix(cron:session): session closed for user root
> > 
> > What is going on?
> 
> PAM changed the log format, and the newest logcheck version in sid
> already has the new filters. Might want to upgrade?
> 
> (#440123)

I did but it doesn't seem to have changed anything.

$ apt-cache policy logcheck
logcheck:
  Installed: 1.2.61
  Candidate: 1.2.61
  Version table:
 *** 1.2.61 0
        200 ftp://ftp.debian.org unstable/main Packages
        100 /var/lib/dpkg/status
     1.2.60 0
        990 ftp://debian.uchicago.edu testing/main Packages


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