How to allow cron to run if user password is expired

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Issue

  • The cron job wasn't executed successfully, and got these messages:
Jul 10 00:31:01 hostname1 crond[2860]: CRON (xxx) ERROR: failed to open PAM security session: Success
Jul 10 00:31:01 hostname1 crond[2860]: CRON (xxx) ERROR: cannot set security context

  • How to let the cron job continue to run?

  • Cron stop after user password expired.

Environment

  • Red Hat Enterprise Linux 5
  • Red Hat Enterprise Linux 6
  • Red Hat Enterprise Linux 7
  • Red Hat Enterprise Linux 8

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