Seeing an error "You are not allowed to access crontab because of pam configuration" on SSSD configured system

Solution Verified - Updated -

Issue

  • Getting an error while running crontab -l on the system using SSSD for authentication:
 You are not allowed to access (crontab) because of pam configuration.

Environment

  • Red Hat Enterprise Linux 6
  • Red Hat Enterprise Linux 7
  • sssd
  • crontab

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