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)