Crontab -l Command Error “Authentication token is no longer valid”

crontab -l command error “Authentication token is no longer valid; new one required You (root) are not allowed to access to (crontab) because of pam configuration. “

How to Resolve crontab -l command error

This error will come when user password expired and your trying to list cron jobs. How did you verify.?

chage -l root
Last password change : Jan 23, 2017
Password expires : May 03, 2017
Password inactive : never
Account expires : never
Minimum number of days between password change : 0
Maximum number of days between password change : 100
Number of days of warning before password expires : 10

To Resolve this error simple reset your user password using below command

 passwd
Changing password for user root.
New password:
Retype new password:
passwd: all authentication tokens updated successfully.

Now try to list out your cron jobs will work perfectly 

crontab -l
###########
# ARKIT #
###########

# Example of job definition:
# .---------------- minute (0 - 59)
# | .------------- hour (0 - 23)
# | | .---------- day of month (1 - 31)
# | | | .------- month (1 - 12) OR jan,feb,mar,apr ...
# | | | | .---- day of week (0 - 6) (Sunday=0 or 7) OR sun,mon,tue,wed,thu,fri,sat
# | | | | |
# * * * * * user-name command to be executed

That’s it. Authentication token is no longer valid resolved

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