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diff --git a/modules/pam_timestamp/README b/modules/pam_timestamp/README deleted file mode 100644 index e1ed508a..00000000 --- a/modules/pam_timestamp/README +++ /dev/null @@ -1,56 +0,0 @@ -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. - -The default encryption hash is taken from the HMAC_CRYPTO_ALGO variable from / -etc/login.defs. - -OPTIONS - -timestampdir=directory - - Specify an alternate directory where pam_timestamp creates timestamp files. - -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_timestamp was written by Nalin Dahyabhai. - |