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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.
timestamp_timeout=number
verbose
debug
The auth and session module types are provided.
PAM_AUTH_ERR
PAM_SUCCESS
PAM_SESSION_ERR
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.
auth sufficient pam_timestamp.so verbose auth required pam_unix.so session required pam_unix.so session optional pam_timestamp.so
/var/run/sudo/...
pam_timestamp_check(8), pam.conf(5), pam.d(5), pam(8)
pam_tally was written by Nalin Dahyabhai.