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When tailing /var/log/cron i noticed that the cron job is failing due to PAM permissions. In my access.conf i do have the following uncommented to make sure (or what i thought was making sure) that root did have permissions to run cron jobs.
Where do I find the PAM configuration file?
Some PAM modules require configuration files with the PAM configuration to operate. You can find the configuration files in /etc/security. If you misconfigure PAM, this could lead to serious problems. The four types of PAM services:
How to control access to pam.d files?
For example /etc/pam.d/sudo might have a line like this: account include system-auth which would mean that sudo pulls account information from /etc/pam.d/system-auth The /etc/security/access.conf file will contain the list of accounts allowed or denied access.
Which is the required module in Linux PAM?
account required pam_nologin.so The account is the management group, required is the control flag, and the used module is pam_nologin.so. You may find a fourth column, which is for module parameters.
Can a non root user log in to a VM?
On a VM I am initializing I am able to log in as one non-root user ( admin) but not another ( tbbscraper) over SSH with public key authentication. The only error message I can find in any log file is
How to disallow non-root logins on tty1?
# # Disallow non-root logins on tty1 # #-:ALL EXCEPT root:tty1 # # User “root” should be allowed to get access via cron .. tty5 tty6. + : root : cron crond :0 tty1 tty2 tty3 tty4 tty5 tty6 # # Disallow console logins to all but a few accounts. # -:ALL EXCEPT wheel shutdown sync:LOCAL root
Can You SSH as a non root user?
I can SSH login as root. But not as non-root. This is what i did to SSH login as non-root user: Using username “lin-yuan”. Server refused our key [email protected]’s password: Then i tried lin-yuan@UF:~$ sudo /usr/sbin/sshd -d and get this: