From de848d9e9146434817c65d74d1d0313e9d729462 Mon Sep 17 00:00:00 2001 From: Daniel Baumann Date: Sat, 27 Apr 2024 14:01:37 +0200 Subject: Adding upstream version 1.4.0. Signed-off-by: Daniel Baumann --- modules/pam_timestamp/pam_timestamp.8 | 130 ++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++ 1 file changed, 130 insertions(+) create mode 100644 modules/pam_timestamp/pam_timestamp.8 (limited to 'modules/pam_timestamp/pam_timestamp.8') diff --git a/modules/pam_timestamp/pam_timestamp.8 b/modules/pam_timestamp/pam_timestamp.8 new file mode 100644 index 0000000..59ddcd6 --- /dev/null +++ b/modules/pam_timestamp/pam_timestamp.8 @@ -0,0 +1,130 @@ +'\" t +.\" Title: pam_timestamp +.\" Author: [see the "AUTHOR" section] +.\" Generator: DocBook XSL Stylesheets v1.79.1 +.\" Date: 06/08/2020 +.\" Manual: Linux-PAM Manual +.\" Source: Linux-PAM Manual +.\" Language: English +.\" +.TH "PAM_TIMESTAMP" "8" "06/08/2020" "Linux-PAM Manual" "Linux\-PAM Manual" +.\" ----------------------------------------------------------------- +.\" * Define some portability stuff +.\" ----------------------------------------------------------------- +.\" ~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~ +.\" http://bugs.debian.org/507673 +.\" http://lists.gnu.org/archive/html/groff/2009-02/msg00013.html +.\" ~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~ +.ie \n(.g .ds Aq \(aq +.el .ds Aq ' +.\" ----------------------------------------------------------------- +.\" * set default formatting +.\" ----------------------------------------------------------------- +.\" disable hyphenation +.nh +.\" disable justification (adjust text to left margin only) +.ad l +.\" ----------------------------------------------------------------- +.\" * MAIN CONTENT STARTS HERE * +.\" ----------------------------------------------------------------- +.SH "NAME" +pam_timestamp \- Authenticate using cached successful authentication attempts +.SH "SYNOPSIS" +.HP \w'\fBpam_timestamp\&.so\fR\ 'u +\fBpam_timestamp\&.so\fR [timestampdir=\fIdirectory\fR] [timestamp_timeout=\fInumber\fR] [verbose] [debug] +.SH "DESCRIPTION" +.PP +In a nutshell, +\fIpam_timestamp\fR +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 +\fBsudo\fR\&. +.PP +When an application opens a session using +\fIpam_timestamp\fR, a timestamp file is created in the +\fItimestampdir\fR +directory for the user\&. When an application attempts to authenticate the user, a +\fIpam_timestamp\fR +will treat a sufficiently recent timestamp file as grounds for succeeding\&. +.SH "OPTIONS" +.PP +\fBtimestampdir=\fR\fB\fIdirectory\fR\fR +.RS 4 +Specify an alternate directory where +\fIpam_timestamp\fR +creates timestamp files\&. +.RE +.PP +\fBtimestamp_timeout=\fR\fB\fInumber\fR\fR +.RS 4 +How long should +\fIpam_timestamp\fR +treat timestamp as valid after their last modification date (in seconds)\&. Default is 300 seconds\&. +.RE +.PP +\fBverbose\fR +.RS 4 +Attempt to inform the user when access is granted\&. +.RE +.PP +\fBdebug\fR +.RS 4 +Turns on debugging messages sent to +\fBsyslog\fR(3)\&. +.RE +.SH "MODULE TYPES PROVIDED" +.PP +The +\fBauth\fR +and +\fBsession\fR +module types are provided\&. +.SH "RETURN VALUES" +.PP +PAM_AUTH_ERR +.RS 4 +The module was not able to retrieve the user name or no valid timestamp file was found\&. +.RE +.PP +PAM_SUCCESS +.RS 4 +Everything was successful\&. +.RE +.PP +PAM_SESSION_ERR +.RS 4 +Timestamp file could not be created or updated\&. +.RE +.SH "NOTES" +.PP +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\&. +.SH "EXAMPLES" +.sp +.if n \{\ +.RS 4 +.\} +.nf +auth sufficient pam_timestamp\&.so verbose +auth required pam_unix\&.so + +session required pam_unix\&.so +session optional pam_timestamp\&.so + +.fi +.if n \{\ +.RE +.\} +.SH "FILES" +.PP +/var/run/pam_timestamp/\&.\&.\&. +.RS 4 +timestamp files and directories +.RE +.SH "SEE ALSO" +.PP +\fBpam_timestamp_check\fR(8), +\fBpam.conf\fR(5), +\fBpam.d\fR(5), +\fBpam\fR(8) +.SH "AUTHOR" +.PP +pam_timestamp was written by Nalin Dahyabhai\&. -- cgit v1.2.3