Hello! I want enter user/root password only once per session. To do this,
it will probably be convenient to export the password to shell variable.
For example, adding this to PAM configuration file:
auth sufficient pam_exec.so expose_authtok /path/to/script.sh
But how to write it in system-con
Hi Jone,
Jone writes:
> Hello! I want enter user/root password only once per session. To do this,
> it will probably be convenient to export the password to shell variable.
> For example, adding this to PAM configuration file:
>
>auth sufficient pam_exec.so expose_authtok /path/to/script.sh
Thanks, Timothy! And sorry for my bad english.
> I don’t fully understand what you are trying to do
It's elementary! One password for any "local services", such as sudo, GPG
encryption, etc. The password is entered once at login and exported
to environment variable. As a result, password is avail
Jone writes:
> The password is entered once at login and exported
> to environment variable. As a result, password is available during the user
> session (for some automation with bash scripts).
Please know that environment variables are readable in /proc and in the
output of process managers.
Important notice, thank you!
I have read the detailed answer on this page:
https://stackoverflow.com/questions/4129631/linux-securing-environment-variables
and suppose I could use file instead variable.
An alternative solution would probably be to configure
sudoers file. But here comes the problem
