Issue

"crontab -l" command fails with the following error.

[root@server1 ~]# crontab -l

Bad item passed to pam_*_item()
You (root) are not allowed to access to (crontab) because of pam configuration.

• /var/log/cron

May 31 04:19:20 server1 crond[27677]: Bad item passed to pam_*_item()
May 31 04:19:20 server1 crond[27677]: CRON (root) ERROR: failed to open PAM security session: Success
May 31 04:19:20 server1 crond[27677]: CRON (root) ERROR: cannot set security context

• /var/log/secure

May 31 04:19:33 server1 crontab: pam_env(crond:setcred): pam_putenv: delete non-existent entry; mesg n

• /var/log/messages

May 31 04:19:33 server1 crontab: Bad item passed to pam_*_item()