*** Bug 176423 has been marked as a duplicate of this bug. ***
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QE ack for 4.5. Need another bug to track the authconfig changes necessary.
After more thinking about this bug I think it should be closed as NEXTRELEASE. The bug is workarounded in current RHEL4 crond PAM config file by not including system-auth for session. It is also fixed properly in FC6/RHEL5. Or we could just enhance pam_succeed_if with service matching support which could be handy and leave the authconfig and crond (because the workaround would have to be reverted) changes for next update.
*** Bug 229755 has been marked as a duplicate of this bug. ***
I can't see most of the comments on this bug, but my bug #229755 is not about pam_unix spamming /var/log/messages on cron jobs, it is about a feature of PAM not working correctly, or being absent from EL4's PAM build and misreporting the issue.
The bug morphed a little bit since the original report. Changing the summary to reflect what is planned be done for RHEL4.5.
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