PAM-PANEL-ICON(1)                                                                                              PAM-PANEL-ICON(1)



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

SYNOPSIS
       pam-panel-icon

DESCRIPTION
       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 authoriza-
       tion 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.


EXIT STATUS
       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.


FILES
       /sbin/pam_timestamp_check
              A hard-coded location of the pam_timestamp_check executable.


SEE ALSO
       pam_timestamp(8), pam_timestamp_check(8)




Red Hat                                                    2009-10-05                                          PAM-PANEL-ICON(1)