mestamp-types">6.36.3. MODULE TYPES PROVIDED

The `auth` and `session` module types are provided.

### 6.36.4. RETURN VALUES

PAM_AUTH_ERR

  The module was not able to retrieve the user name or no valid timestamp file was found.

PAM_SUCCESS

  Everything was successful.

PAM_SESSION_ERR

  Timestamp file could not be created or updated.

### 6.36.5. 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.

### 6.36.6. EXAMPLES

    auth sufficient pam_timestamp.so verbose
    auth required   pam_unix.so

    session required pam_unix.so
    session optional pam_timestamp.so

### 6.36.7. FILES

/var/run/pam_timestamp/...

  timestamp files and directories

### 6.36.8. AUTHOR

pam_timestamp was written by Nalin Dahyabhai.

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