Re: Authentication service cannot retrieve authentication info.

From: Nicos Gollan (gtdev_at_spearhead.de)
Date: 03/13/05

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Date: Sun, 13 Mar 2005 23:35:41 +0100

    On Sunday March 13 2005 16:21, Nicos Gollan wrote:
    > What first irritated me was that after installing logcheck, I saw this
    > message from cron:
    >
    > Mar 12 20:23:01 chicago CRON[8427]: Authentication service cannot retrieve
    > authentication info.
    >
    > every 15 minutes. I'm rather sure it's caused by the exim cronjob because
    > the time matches and if I try su'ing to mail or daemon, I get:
    >
    > # su mail
    > su: Authentication service cannot retrieve authentication info.
    > (Ignored)

    Self-reply:

    Apparently, the message is due to the mail and daemon users having had no
    entry in /etc/shadow. Adding a passwordless login there fixed it. Now, if I
    opened up my system for attacks, please let me know :-) 

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