Re: PAM failure?
On Thu, Jan 03, 2008 at 02:26:20PM +0000, Craig Hurley wrote:
>
> When looking at /var/log/auth.log PAM seems to be logging a large
> amount. For example, every 30 minutes cron runs a script as root. It
> appears to me that each time the script is run, PAM adds 4 entries to
> auth.log, recording a the session open and close along with 2 other
> failures. Here's a snip from auth.log:
>
> Jan 3 13:30:01 hostname CRON[31753]: (pam_unix) session opened for user
> root by (uid=0)
> Jan 3 13:30:01 hostname pam_limits[31753]: setrlimit limit #11 to
> soft=-1, hard=-1 failed: Operation not permitted; uid=0 euid=0
> Jan 3 13:30:01 hostname pam_limits[31753]: setrlimit limit #12 to
> soft=-1, hard=-1 failed: Operation not permitted; uid=0 euid=0
> Jan 3 13:30:01 hostname CRON[31753]: (pam_unix) session closed for user
> root
>
> Does anyone know why PAM fails twice every time a script is run from cron?
>
> I'm running Debian 4.0.
Find out what script it is and read it. See what this setrlimit is.
Doug.
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