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

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 unprivileged 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-panel-icon - A notification area indicator of pam_timestamp status

pam_timestamp(8), pam_timestamp_check(8)

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

pam-panel-icon