SUMMARY: ftp cron job failing with pam errors

From: Matt Wells <matt.wells_at_thirdspace.tv>
Date: Thu May 29 2003 - 11:38:32 EDT
Got a shed load of 'out of office' replies and then figured out what was
wrong myself. Password ageing had kicked in. Obvious with hindsight.

rgds to all

Matt 

 


>  -----Original Message-----
> From: 	Matt Wells  
> Sent:	29 May 2003 13:17
> To:	sunmanagers@sunmanagers.org
> Subject:	ftp cron job failing with pam errors
> 
> Greetings
> 
>     On a Solaris 8 box which has been JASS'd and then loosened off a bit
> so it can actually do something :-), I have some cron jobs that do an ftp
> transfer. Outside of cron, these scripts work absolutely fine. Within a
> users crontab file they do nothing and I get the following  error in
> /var/adm/messages when they attempt to run:-
> 
> cron[1757]: [ID 308067 user.debug] pam_acct_mgmt: error Get new
> authentication token
> 
> 
> Do I need to make a setting change in pam.conf to get my scripts to work
> or is this something else?
> 
> Will summarize.
> 
> Thanks
> 
> Matt Wells
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