Bug 989201

Summary:	PAM issue prevents atd sending mail
Product:	[Fedora] Fedora	Reporter:	Paul Howarth <paul>
Component:	at	Assignee:	Marcela Mašláňová <mmaslano>
Status:	CLOSED CURRENTRELEASE	QA Contact:	Fedora Extras Quality Assurance <extras-qa>
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Version:	19	CC:	a.kriegl, bnt19231, bugzilla-2004, deanhunter, gary, Gecko8211, goeran, mmaslano, slawomir
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Description Paul Howarth 2013-07-28 09:44:20 UTC

Since updating to F-19, my at jobs have been unable to send mail. This appears to be a PAM issue, as evidenced by these journal entries:

# journalctl -b | grep atd
Jul 27 00:10:00 zion.intra.city-fan.org atd[23419]: pam_unix(atd:session): session opened for user paul by (uid=0)
Jul 27 00:16:28 zion.intra.city-fan.org atd[23419]: pam_loginuid(atd:session): set_loginuid failed
Jul 27 00:16:28 zion.intra.city-fan.org atd[23419]: pam_unix(atd:session): session opened for user paul by (uid=0)
Jul 27 00:16:28 zion.intra.city-fan.org atd[23419]: Cannot make/remove an entry for the specified session

My at job ran at 00:10:00, completed successfully, and then at 00:16:28 tried to mail the output to me but never sent anything.

Last night I tried commenting out the pam_loginuid line from /etc/pam.d/atd and atd was subsequently able to mail me its output.

Comment 1 Göran Uddeborg 2013-08-16 22:06:15 UTC

I don't see those messages in my log, but your workaround helped for me too.  (Thanks for the tip!)

Comment 2 Dean Hunter 2013-10-28 17:33:40 UTC

Thank you for the work-around. It works for me. Do you have any idea what I loose by commenting pam_loginuid.so?

Comment 3 Marcela Mašláňová 2013-11-12 11:47:20 UTC

*** Bug 1005323 has been marked as a duplicate of this bug. ***

Comment 4 Marcela Mašláňová 2013-11-12 11:48:31 UTC

Thanks Paul. I had the same problem with cronie. This is a correct fix. I'll fix it in F20 and F19 branches.

Comment 5 Marcela Mašláňová 2013-12-05 11:44:57 UTC

Please, add the pam_loginuid.so back. It can solve some cases, but the configuration is not safe without it. PAM authentication in code of at is now improved and working properly.

Comment 6 Fedora Update System 2013-12-05 11:47:41 UTC

at-3.1.13-13.fc19 has been submitted as an update for Fedora 19.
https://admin.fedoraproject.org/updates/at-3.1.13-13.fc19

Comment 7 Fedora Update System 2013-12-05 11:48:50 UTC

at-3.1.13-14.fc20 has been submitted as an update for Fedora 20.
https://admin.fedoraproject.org/updates/at-3.1.13-14.fc20

Comment 8 Paul Howarth 2013-12-05 12:34:40 UTC

at-3.1.13-13.fc19 works for me.

Comment 9 Marcela Mašláňová 2013-12-05 12:55:23 UTC

(In reply to Paul Howarth from comment #8)
> at-3.1.13-13.fc19 works for me.

Thanks, I tested it only on my laptop, so I'm glad it's working for everyone.

Comment 10 Fedora Update System 2013-12-27 05:57:23 UTC

at-3.1.13-14.fc20 has been pushed to the Fedora 20 stable repository.  If problems still persist, please make note of it in this bug report.

Comment 11 Fedora Update System 2014-01-01 03:32:12 UTC

at-3.1.13-13.fc19 has been pushed to the Fedora 19 stable repository.  If problems still persist, please make note of it in this bug report.