pam-panel-icon(1) [debian man page]

PAM-PANEL-ICON(1)					      General Commands Manual						 PAM-PANEL-ICON(1)

NAME

       pam-panel-icon - A notification area indicator of pam_timestamp status

SYNOPSIS

       pam-panel-icon

DESCRIPTION

       pam-panel-icon  should  be  automatically  started when starting an X11 desktop environment.  For example, in GNOME gnome-session should be
       configured to start pam-panel-icon.  In a properly configured system it should never be necessary to start pam-panel-icon manually.

       pam-panel-icon uses pam_timestamp_check(8) to watch the pam_timestamp timestamp status.	If  the  pam_timestamp	authorization  is  active,
       allowing  an  unprivileted user to temporarily authenticate as the root user without providing a password, an icon in the notification area
       of the panel is displayed.  The icon allows dropping the authorization immediately.

EXIT STATUS

       Ordinarily, pam-panel-icon keeps running until the X11 desktop session ends, and then returns 0.  pam-panel-icon only returns with non-zero
       status on unexpected error.

FILES

       /sbin/pam_timestamp_check
	      A hard-coded location of the pam_timestamp_check executable.

SEE ALSO

       pam_timestamp(8), pam_timestamp_check(8)

Red Hat 							    2009-10-05							 PAM-PANEL-ICON(1)

PAM_TIMESTAMP_CHECK(8)						 Linux-PAM Manual					    PAM_TIMESTAMP_CHECK(8)

NAME

       pam_timestamp_check - Check to see if the default timestamp is valid

SYNOPSIS

       pam_timestamp_check [-k] [-d] [target_user]

DESCRIPTION

       With no arguments pam_timestamp_check will check to see if the default timestamp is valid, or optionally remove it.

OPTIONS

       -k
	   Instead of checking the validity of a timestamp, remove it. This is analogous to sudo's -k option.

       -d
	   Instead of returning validity using an exit status, loop indefinitely, polling regularly and printing the status on standard output.

       target_user
	   By default pam_timestamp_check checks or removes timestamps generated by pam_timestamp when the user authenticates as herself. When the
	   user authenticates as a different user, the name of the timestamp file changes to accommodate this.	target_user allows to specify this
	   user name.

RETURN VALUES

       0
	   The timestamp is valid.

       2
	   The binary is not setuid root.

       3
	   Invalid invocation.

       4
	   User is unknown.

       5
	   Permissions error.

       6
	   Invalid controlling tty.

       7
	   Timestamp is not valid.

NOTES

       Users can get confused when they are not always asked for passwords when running a given program. Some users reflexively begin typing
       information before noticing that it is not being asked for.

EXAMPLES

	   auth sufficient pam_timestamp.so verbose
	   auth required   pam_unix.so

	   session required pam_unix.so
	   session optional pam_timestamp.so

FILES

       /var/run/sudo/...
	   timestamp files and directories

SEE ALSO

       pam_timestamp_check(8), pam.conf(5), pam.d(5), pam(8)

AUTHOR

       pam_tally was written by Nalin Dahyabhai.

Linux-PAM Manual						    06/04/2011						    PAM_TIMESTAMP_CHECK(8)