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How to avoid error/failure for cronjob by pam even if password expired (Doc ID 2371239.1)

Last updated on SEPTEMBER 14, 2022

Applies to:

Linux OS - Version Oracle Linux 7.2 and later
Oracle Cloud Infrastructure - Version N/A and later
Linux x86-64
Linux x86

Goal

The system's account will be expire by policy but need to run to cron job by that account.

When expired, cron job was failed by PAM with below message :

Jul 10 00:31:01 hostname1 crond[2860]: CRON (xxx) ERROR: failed to open PAM security session: Success
Jul 10 00:31:01 hostname1 crond[2860]: CRON (xxx) ERROR: cannot set security context

Solution

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