On Monday 31 January 2011 13:18:26 Patrick O'Callaghan wrote:
On Mon, 2011-01-31 at 12:33 +0000, Anne Wilson wrote:
> I guess the next step is to take the keychain part out of the script
> during tests, even though the documentation says that I must have it
> when running under cron.
Which documentation? The manpage for crontab doesn't mention keychain
(it would be wierd if it did). It does say that you can run as a
non-root user by either a) configuring cron.allow/cron.deny or b) using
PAM authentication. However the exact conditions under which it uses one
or the other are not explicit. It may be that Fedora cron always uses
the PAM stuff, it's not at all clear. It wouldn't be hard to check with
a toy script though.
The Keychain man page. It specifically says that it must be in the script if
the script is to be run by a cron job. At least, that's what I understand it
to say.
Anne
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