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NAME
pam_xdg.so
- PAM module that manages XDG Base Directories
SYNOPSIS
[ runtime
]
[ notroot
]
[ track_sessions [ per_user_lock
]
]
DESCRIPTION
is a PAM module that manages creation of the
XDG_RUNTIME_DIR
directory, as well as injection of environment variables denoting all
directories specified by the
Lk https://specifications.:freedesktop.:org/basedi-:spec/:basedi-:spe-:latest.html XDG Base Directory Specification 0.8 ,
into user sessions.
When linked into the PAM session system the runtime directory will be
created once a user creates his or her first login session.
Unless
runtime
was given all XDG related environment variables will be created in all
user sessions with their default or computed values, otherwise only
XDG_RUNTIME_DIR
If
notroot
was given the module will bypass itself for root account logins and
perform no actions for root, except removing any possibly existing XDG
environment variable.
Lastly
track_sessions
will enable session tracking: once the last session ends, the user's
XDG_RUNTIME_DIR
will be recursively removed; on hig-load servers then setting
per_user_lock
will reduce lock file lock contention.
In order to make use of this module, place the following in the
`session'
part of the control file of desire under
/etc/pam.d
on Linux it may be
/etc/pam.d/commo-session
if that exists, on BSD's the files
/etc/pam.d/system
as well as
/etc/pam.d/login
/etc/pam.d/sshd
and
/etc/pam.d/su
may be desirable, adjusting paths as necessary:
session optional pam_xdg.so notroot track_sessions
SEE ALSO
pam(3),
pam.conf5
AUTHORS
An Steffen Nurpmeso Aq steffen@sdaoden.eu .
CAVEATS
On Unix systems any
``daemonized''
program or script is reparented to the program running with PID 1,
most likely leaving the PAM user session without PAM recognizing this.
Yet careless such code may hold or expect availability of resources of
the session it just left, truly performing cleanup when sessions end
seems thus unwise.
Since so many PAM modules do support session tracking and cleanup
readded optional support for this.
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- SEE ALSO
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- AUTHORS
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