Non-root user can not run crontab, getting error 'Authentication token is no longer valid; new one required' in /var/log/messages
Issue
- User is unable to run jobs via crontab
- Root user works fine, but non-root users get the following error message on running
crontab:
12:09:35 server1 crond[12979]: Authentication token is no longer valid; new one required
12:09:35 server1 crond[12979]: CRON ERROR: failed to open PAM security session: Success
12:09:35 server1 crond[12979]: CRON ERROR: cannot set security context
- crontabs for specific user don't get executed.
crontabcommand is failing with PAM errors.- Cronjobs do not appear to run for some users.
- Changes have been made to /etc/pam.d/system-auth-ac which is causing failure of
crontabcommand.
Environment
- Red Hat Enterprise Linux 5
- Red Hat Enterprise Linux 6
- crond
- pam
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