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NAME

6       pam-panel-icon - A notification area indicator of pam_timestamp status
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SYNOPSIS

9       pam-panel-icon
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DESCRIPTION

12       pam-panel-icon  should  be  automatically  started when starting an X11
13       desktop environment.  For example, in  GNOME  gnome-session  should  be
14       configured to start pam-panel-icon.  In a properly configured system it
15       should never be necessary to start pam-panel-icon manually.
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17       pam-panel-icon uses pam_timestamp_check(8) to watch  the  pam_timestamp
18       timestamp status.  If the pam_timestamp authorization is active, allow‐
19       ing an unprivileted user to temporarily authenticate as the  root  user
20       without  providing  a password, an icon in the notification area of the
21       panel is displayed.  The icon allows dropping the authorization immedi‐
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EXIT STATUS

26       Ordinarily,  pam-panel-icon keeps running until the X11 desktop session
27       ends, and then returns 0.  pam-panel-icon only  returns  with  non-zero
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FILES

32       /sbin/pam_timestamp_check
33              A hard-coded location of the pam_timestamp_check executable.
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SEE ALSO

37       pam_timestamp(8), pam_timestamp_check(8)
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