Bug 170809

Summary:	vixie cron is not pam aware
Product:	Red Hat Enterprise Linux 3	Reporter:	Jason Vas Dias <jvdias>
Component:	vixie-cron	Assignee:	Jason Vas Dias <jvdias>
Status:	CLOSED ERRATA	QA Contact:	Brock Organ <borgan>
Severity:	medium	Docs Contact:
Priority:	medium
Version:	3.0	CC:	benl, bnocera
Target Milestone:	---	Keywords:	FutureFeature
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Hardware:	All
OS:	Linux
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Fixed In Version:	RHSA-2005:0117	Doc Type:	Enhancement
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Last Closed:	2006-05-01 18:00:02 UTC	Type:	---
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Bug Depends On:	5162
Bug Blocks:	161600

Description Jason Vas Dias 2005-10-14 16:19:52 UTC

+++ This bug was initially created as a clone of Bug #5162 +++

vixie cron does not use pam and also does not read
/etc/security/limits.conf file. The problem is that if
i normally set limits for all users (number of processes, amount of memory, etc)
with just editing /etc/pam.d/(ssh,login,you name it) file
and setting it to use /etc/security/pam_limits.so, then i cant do this for cron.
And users can execute programs by setting cronjobs or at jobs.
To those programs the limits do not apply and so can user override limits set by
administrator.

-- Additional comment from notting on 1999-09-17 10:44 EST --
*** This bug has been marked as a duplicate of 5160 ***

-- Additional comment from jvdias on 2005-05-10 08:22 EST --
*** Bug 157290 has been marked as a duplicate of this bug. ***

-- Additional comment from dff on 2005-07-20 17:58 EST --
Withholding PM ACK; vixie-cron does not currently have a QA slot allocated to it
for U6:
  http://intranet.corp.redhat.com/ic/intranet/U6Packages.html

Comment 1 Jason Vas Dias 2005-10-14 16:20:52 UTC

This bug is fixed with vixie-cron-4.1-8_EL3, available from:
  http://people.redhat.com/~jvdias/cron/RHEL-3
and should be considered for inclusion in RHEL-3-U7 .

Comment 3 Jason Vas Dias 2006-05-01 18:00:02 UTC

Fixed with vixie-cron-4.1-10.EL3, currently in RHEL-3-U7 with errata
RHSA-2005:0117.