SUMMARY: ftp cron job failing with pam errors

From: Matt Wells (matt.wells@thirdspace.tv)
Date: Thu May 29 2003 - 11:35:07 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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