After updating to vixie-cron-4.1-77.el5_4.1 cron breaks for ldap users

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Issue

  • After updating to vixie-cron-4.1-77.el5_4.1 cron breaks for ldap users
  • In correct environment variables in /etc/environment can cause cron to fail
  • The message "Bad item passed to pam_*_item" continously logged in /var/log/cron

Environment

  • Red Hat Enterprise Linux 5
  • vixie-cron-4.1-77.el5_4.1
  • RHEL5 system authenticating to LDAP server

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