PAM-PANEL-ICON

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

pam−panel−icon

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.

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.

/sbin/pam_timestamp_check

A hard-coded location of the pam_timestamp_check executable.

pam_timestamp(8), pam_timestamp_check(8)