Bug 434657 - new vixie-cron totally broken due to pam mismatch
Summary: new vixie-cron totally broken due to pam mismatch
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Status: CLOSED DUPLICATE of bug 433459
Alias: None
Product: Fedora
Classification: Fedora
Component: vixie-cron
Version: 8
Hardware: i386
OS: Linux
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high
Target Milestone: ---
Assignee: Marcela Mašláňová
QA Contact: Fedora Extras Quality Assurance
URL:
Whiteboard:
: 436461 (view as bug list)
Depends On:
Blocks:
TreeView+ depends on / blocked
 
Reported: 2008-02-24 01:47 UTC by John Mellor
Modified: 2008-03-07 13:13 UTC (History)
1 user (show)

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Doc Type: Bug Fix
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Last Closed: 2008-02-25 07:24:08 UTC
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Description John Mellor 2008-02-24 01:47:51 UTC
Description of problem:
cron no longer working due to incompatible pam libs

Version-Release number of selected component (if applicable):
vixie-cron-4.2-8.fc8

How reproducible:
100%, totally broken by latest updates

Steps to Reproduce:
1. update box to current
2. note that cron stops working, and /var/log/secure shows a mess.
  
Actual results:
excerpt from /var/log/secure due to broken cron:
Feb 23 20:01:01 mellor crond[25033]: PAM unable to
dlopen(/lib/security/pam_access.so)
Feb 23 20:01:01 mellor crond[25033]: PAM [error: /lib/libpam.so.0: version
`LIBPAM_MODUTIL_1.1' not found (required by /lib/security/pam_access.so)]
Feb 23 20:01:01 mellor crond[25033]: PAM adding faulty module:
/lib/security/pam_access.so
Feb 23 20:01:01 mellor crond[25033]: PAM unable to
dlopen(/lib/security/pam_limits.so)
Feb 23 20:01:01 mellor crond[25033]: PAM [error: /lib/libpam.so.0: version
`LIBPAM_MODUTIL_1.1' not found (required by /lib/security/pam_limits.so)]
Feb 23 20:01:01 mellor crond[25033]: PAM adding faulty module:
/lib/security/pam_limits.so
Feb 23 20:01:01 mellor crond[25033]: PAM unable to
dlopen(/lib/security/pam_access.so)
Feb 23 20:01:01 mellor crond[25033]: PAM [error: /lib/libpam.so.0: version
`LIBPAM_MODUTIL_1.1' not found (required by /lib/security/pam_access.so)]
Feb 23 20:01:01 mellor crond[25033]: PAM adding faulty module:
/lib/security/pam_access.so
Feb 23 20:01:01 mellor crond[25033]: PAM unable to
dlopen(/lib/security/pam_limits.so)
Feb 23 20:01:01 mellor crond[25033]: PAM [error: /lib/libpam.so.0: version
`LIBPAM_MODUTIL_1.1' not found (required by /lib/security/pam_limits.so)]
Feb 23 20:01:01 mellor crond[25033]: PAM adding faulty module:
/lib/security/pam_limits.so

Expected results:
cron should work like it used to.

Additional info:

Comment 1 John Mellor 2008-02-24 01:50:06 UTC
This bug also has security implications, since the log summaries that are built
by a crontask never get run, and therefore never email the admin about attacks, etc.

Comment 2 Marcela Mašláňová 2008-02-25 07:24:08 UTC

*** This bug has been marked as a duplicate of 433459 ***

Comment 3 Marcela Mašláňová 2008-03-07 13:03:16 UTC
*** Bug 436461 has been marked as a duplicate of this bug. ***

Comment 4 Gwyn Ciesla 2008-03-07 13:13:21 UTC
I didn't find that it was totally broken per se, just broken until I restarted
crond, then it's fine.


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