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Rotate your IAM Keys to be in compliance with security best practices
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Unable to remove pkg from Ubuntu 20.04 #59

Closed roccomuscaritolo-okta closed 3 years ago

roccomuscaritolo-okta commented 3 years ago

Getting errors when trying to uninstall this package on Ubuntu 20.04 "Focal"

# /etc/lsb-release 
DISTRIB_ID=Ubuntu
DISTRIB_RELEASE=20.04
DISTRIB_CODENAME=focal
DISTRIB_DESCRIPTION="Ubuntu 20.04.2 LTS"
username@hostname:~ $ sudo apt remove aws-rotate-iam-keys
Reading package lists... Done
Building dependency tree       
Reading state information... Done
Use 'sudo apt autoremove' to remove them.
The following packages will be REMOVED:
  aws-rotate-iam-keys
0 upgraded, 0 newly installed, 1 to remove and 0 not upgraded.
1 not fully installed or removed.
After this operation, 21.5 kB disk space will be freed.
Do you want to continue? [Y/n] y
(Reading database ... 198016 files and directories currently installed.)
Removing aws-rotate-iam-keys (0.9.8.3) ...
Trying to find a user name for the cron job
ps: root
logname: username
whoami: root
id: root
USER: root
SUDO_USER: username
The user username cannot use this program (crontab)
The user username cannot use this program (crontab)
grep: unrecognized option '--profile'
Usage: grep [OPTION]... PATTERNS [FILE]...
Try 'grep --help' for more information.
The user username cannot use this program (crontab)
dpkg: error processing package aws-rotate-iam-keys (--remove):
 installed aws-rotate-iam-keys package pre-removal script subprocess returned error exit status 1
dpkg: too many errors, stopping
Trying to find a user name for the cron job
ps: root
logname: username
whoami: root
id: root
USER: root
SUDO_USER: username
The user username cannot use this program (crontab)
The user username cannot use this program (crontab)
The user username cannot use this program (crontab)
dpkg: error while cleaning up:
 installed aws-rotate-iam-keys package post-installation script subprocess returned error exit status 1
Errors were encountered while processing:
 aws-rotate-iam-keys
Processing was halted because there were too many errors.
E: Sub-process /usr/bin/dpkg returned an error code (1)
roccomuscaritolo-okta commented 3 years ago

Follow-up root cause was someone configured an empty /etc/cron.allow file on our systems which will deny every user. 

username@host:~ $ crontab -l
/etc/cron.allow: Permission denied
You (username) are not allowed to use this program (crontab)
See crontab(1) for more information

Removing the empty file resolved my issue.

username@host:~ $ sudo rm /etc/cron.allow