Date: Mon, 18 Jun 2007 14:06:22 +0400 From: Yar Tikhiy <yar@comp.chem.msu.su> To: LI Xin <delphij@delphij.net> Cc: cvs-src@FreeBSD.ORG, src-committers@FreeBSD.ORG, cvs-all@FreeBSD.ORG Subject: Re: cvs commit: src/etc/pam.d Makefile cron src/usr.sbin/cron/cron Makefile cron.8 cron.h database.c do_command.c src/usr.sbin/cron/lib Makefile entry.c Message-ID: <20070618100622.GV30493@comp.chem.msu.su> In-Reply-To: <4676564E.6060105@delphij.net> References: <200706171725.l5HHPr2c092609@repoman.freebsd.org> <46764262.1060408@delphij.net> <4676564E.6060105@delphij.net>
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On Mon, Jun 18, 2007 at 05:54:22PM +0800, LI Xin wrote: > LI Xin wrote: > > Hi, > > > > Yar Tikhiy wrote: > >> yar 2007-06-17 17:25:53 UTC > >> > >> FreeBSD src repository > >> > >> Modified files: > >> etc/pam.d Makefile > >> usr.sbin/cron/cron Makefile cron.8 cron.h database.c > >> do_command.c > >> usr.sbin/cron/lib Makefile entry.c > >> Added files: > >> etc/pam.d cron > >> Log: > >> Add PAM support to cron(8). Now cron(8) will skip commands scheduled > >> by unavailable accounts, e.g., those locked, expired, not allowed in at > >> the moment by nologin(5), or whatever, depending on cron's pam.conf(5). > >> This applies to personal crontabs only, /etc/crontab is unaffected. > > > > This will silently break a lot of ports, for instance mail/mailman, > > which creates nologin(5) users with crontab entry. Can we for now > > (because we are near a new release) try not disabling nologin(5) users, > > and discuss a better solution? > > > > A possible alternative is to make a pam_ftpusers(8) alike PAM module > > which is marked as "sufficient" and explicitly pass /var/cron/allow > > users (especially ports) to override the policy. > > Thanks to ru@, I should have noticed that nologin(5) is different from > nologin(8) and this would not affect ports installations. > > Sorry for the confusion. Thank you for raising this issue! It clearly deserved an explanation. -- Yar
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