[Bug 483159] Re: pam_mount trying to unmount my auto-mounted encrypted partitions every hour via CRON

[Steve McGrath]

I probably should have elaborated on this a little more.

Cron itself, when running *any* jobs from the crontab, is creating a PAM
session as part of the environment to run the job in.

Cron's pam configuration is in /etc/pam.d/cron, which has a line to
include /etc/pam.d/common_session_noninteractive.

common_session_noninteractive includes the pam_mount module, which may
be necessary for other non-interactive processes. I'm really not sure.
My comments are mostly directed at whoever eventually tries to fix this
bug.

I suppose if I were having this problem, I'd try commenting out the
pam_mount line in /etc/pam.d/common_session_noninteractive.

If that does in fact break other things, I might instead try copying all
the directives except pam_mount from common_session_noninteractive into
/etc/pam.d/cron, and removing the "@include
common_session_noninteractive" line from /etc/pam.d/cron.

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