pam_timestamp_check(8) - Linux man page
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.