Hi
When I enable a box to do authentication using LDAP it breaks cron for users like jboss.
I get the following in /var/log/secure
Sep 14 15:25:01 exoipatest01 crond[7214]: pam_access(crond:account): access denied for user `jboss' from `cron'
I have the following in /etc/ldap.conf
nss_initgroups_ignoreusers root,ldap,named,avahi,haldaemon,dbus,tomcat,radiusd,news,mailman,nscd,jboss
/etc/pam.d/crond
auth sufficient pam_env.so
auth required pam_rootok.so
auth include system-auth
account required pam_access.so
account include system-auth
session required pam_loginuid.so
session include system-auth
/etc/pam.d/system-auth-ac
#%PAM-1.0
# This file is auto-generated.
# User changes will be destroyed the next time authconfig is run.
auth required pam_env.so
auth sufficient pam_unix.so nullok try_first_pass
auth requisite pam_succeed_if.so uid >= 500 quiet
auth sufficient pam_ldap.so use_first_pass
auth required pam_deny.so
account required pam_access.so
account required pam_unix.so broken_shadow
account sufficient pam_localuser.so
account sufficient pam_succeed_if.so uid < 500 quiet
account [default=bad success=ok user_unknown=ignore] pam_ldap.so
account required pam_permit.so
password requisite pam_cracklib.so type= retry=3 difok=3 minlen=8 dcredit=-1 ocredit=-1 ucredit=-1 lcredit=0
password sufficient pam_unix.so md5 shadow nullok try_first_pass use_authtok
password sufficient pam_ldap.so use_authtok
password required pam_deny.so
session optional pam_keyinit.so revoke
session required pam_limits.so
session optional pam_mkhomedir.so
session [success=1 default=ignore] pam_succeed_if.so debug service in crond quiet use_uid
session required pam_unix.so
session optional pam_ldap.so
I have added
+ : jboss : cron
to /etc/security/access.conf which fixes the problem. However I am not sure that it is the "correct" fix.
I would have thought that the string in /etc/ldap.conf
nss_initgroups_ignoreusers would prevent this error unless I am confused about the pam ordering and sequence of how authentication happens.
The cron job executes fine without LDAP enabled.
Can anyone shed any more light on this error and a possible fix? I am using CentOS 5.5 fully updated.
Best Regards
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