[SUMMARY] (or call it info) Cron fails when bsm is configured

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Greetings,

I ran into a cron/bsm problem and here's what I found.  I found some
info on www.boran.com, but that did not solve my problem.  I found the
solution and emailed it to the site owner to add to the site, and I
just thought maybe you find it useful, so I'm attaching the email
here.

Regards,

--Nasser

Sean,

I was looking around for this cron/bsm conflict problem and I read
your page at:

http://www.boran.com/security/sp/Solaris_bsm.html

I finally found out what was wrong in my case, and you may like to add
it to your page:  If you use ssh when you run crontab to edit cron
entries, the USER.au file (e.g. root.au) is not created correctly
because of the default way of switching uid in sshd, and as a result,
cron fails to execute the jobs.  The workaround is either: 1)
Temporarily enable telnet or console access and do a crontab -e
_without_ ssh, or 2)
Configure your sshd with "UseLogin" (default is no).

Regards,

--Nasser


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