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author | Steve Langasek <vorlon@debian.org> | 2009-08-24 03:06:11 -0700 |
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committer | Steve Langasek <vorlon@debian.org> | 2019-01-08 21:25:43 -0800 |
commit | 78915f5a06936cc24cf7776c8b53d08b6ea3616c (patch) | |
tree | 6325216d4660f2a33d2161d71302b8c3f47c76e5 /modules/pam_timestamp/README | |
parent | fdd6439782a15a1abe342044e07e5f7501ae73de (diff) | |
parent | 212b52cf29c06cc209bc8ac0540dbab1acdf1464 (diff) |
merge upstream version 1.1.0
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diff --git a/modules/pam_timestamp/README b/modules/pam_timestamp/README new file mode 100644 index 00000000..17b96437 --- /dev/null +++ b/modules/pam_timestamp/README @@ -0,0 +1,49 @@ +pam_timestamp — Authenticate using cached successful authentication attempts + +━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━ + +DESCRIPTION + +In a nutshell, pam_timestamp caches successful authentication attempts, and +allows you to use a recent successful attempt as the basis for authentication. +This is similar mechanism which is used in sudo. + +When an application opens a session using pam_timestamp, a timestamp file is +created in the timestampdir directory for the user. When an application +attempts to authenticate the user, a pam_timestamp will treat a sufficiently +recent timestamp file as grounds for succeeding. + +OPTIONS + +timestamp_timeout=number + + How long should pam_timestamp treat timestamp as valid after their last + modification date (in seconds). Default is 300 seconds. + +verbose + + Attempt to inform the user when access is granted. + +debug + + Turns on debugging messages sent to syslog(3). + +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 + + +AUTHOR + +pam_tally was written by Nalin Dahyabhai. + |