Hi, Just got it to work by putting the following lines into /etc/pam.d/su
auth sufficient pam_timestamp.so session optional pam_timestamp.so Thanks! Cheers, Matt. On Monday 19 January 2004 12:58, Mike MacCana wrote: > Heya folks, > > I've recently become aware of the niftiness of pam_timestamp. Its a pam > module that can be used to give a user a timestamp (that lasts, say, > five > minutes) when entering some credentials (say, a password) to prove that > you recently entered those credentials sucessfully. > > It apparently came about from the sudo program. Red Hat use it in all > their redhat-config-whatever programs to stop hassling users each time > they want to run some tool that requires root privileges. Run the tool, > enter the password once, get a set of keys representing your credentials > in the gnome taskbar, and, if you run another tool requiring the root > password, pam_timestamp is sufficient to run the tool. > > Its really nifty. So I'd like to use for su to save me some time. > > According to the doco (and my own experience of pam), all that should be > needed to get su to check for the timestamp and allow me to switch user > if > its there is: > > auth sufficent pam_timestamp.so > > at the top of /etc/pam.d/sudo (beneath the #%PAM-1.0 line) > > Which I've done. But it doesn't seem to work. Any ideas folks? > > Thanks muchly. This will save me stacks of time if I can get it to work. > > Mike > -- > __________________________________________________________________________ > Mike MacCana Consultant RHCX, MCSE, MCP+I > Cybersource: Providing Quality IT Professional Services for 11 Years > Specialists in Unix/Linux, TCP/IP and Web Application Development > Level 4, 10 Queen St, Melbourne. Ph : 03 9621 2377 Fax: 03 9621 2477 -- Matthew Wlazlo Dimension Technology Phone : (+61 2) 8230 0321 [EMAIL PROTECTED] Mobile : (+61) 0411 325 520 www.dimtech.com.au PGP Key: http://pgp.mit.edu:11371/pks/lookup?op=get&search=0xA30E22E9 -------------------------------------------------------- CAUTION: This message may contain privileged and confidential information intended only for the use of the addressee named above. If you are not the intended recipient of this message you are hereby notified that any use, dissemination, distribution or reproduction of this message is prohibited. If you have received this message in error please notify Dimension Technology immediately. --------------------------------------------------------
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