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Date:      Mon, 18 Jun 2007 17:54:22 +0800
From:      LI Xin <delphij@delphij.net>
To:        Yar Tikhiy <yar@FreeBSD.ORG>
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:  <4676564E.6060105@delphij.net>
In-Reply-To: <46764262.1060408@delphij.net>
References:  <200706171725.l5HHPr2c092609@repoman.freebsd.org> <46764262.1060408@delphij.net>

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LI Xin wrote:
> Hi,
>=20
> Yar Tikhiy wrote:
>> yar         2007-06-17 17:25:53 UTC
>>
>>   FreeBSD src repository
>>
>>   Modified files:
>>     etc/pam.d            Makefile=20
>>     usr.sbin/cron/cron   Makefile cron.8 cron.h database.c=20
>>                          do_command.c=20
>>     usr.sbin/cron/lib    Makefile entry.c=20
>>   Added files:
>>     etc/pam.d            cron=20
>>   Log:
>>   Add PAM support to cron(8).  Now cron(8) will skip commands schedule=
d
>>   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.
>=20
> 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?
>=20
> 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.

Cheers,
--=20
Xin LI <delphij@delphij.net>	http://www.delphij.net/
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