PAM-TMPDIR-HELPER(8)

💖 pam-tmpdir-helper — the manual page, but make it a group chat 💖

okay bestie, sit down, we're talking about pam-tmpdir-helper from the pam-tmpdir manual, section 8. she's a little helper binary and she's doing the most, quietly, in the background, no notes. 🎀

✨ NAME ✨

pam-tmpdir-helper — literally just here to create a safe temporary directory. that's it, that's her whole personality. 💅

🦋 SYNOPSIS 🦋

<not invoked manually>

no cap, that's the entire synopsis. you do not run her. she runs for you. main character energy, honestly. 👑

🌸 DESCRIPTION 🌸

so pam-tmpdir-helper is a helper binary for the pam_tmpdir module, and her whole job — her moment, her era — is getting invoked to create a secure temporary directory for the invoking user. iconic behavior. ✨

she's genuinely quite simple, and she gets called on behalf of the user by the session component of the pam_tmpdir module. the way she just shows up, does the thing, and leaves? obsessed. 🫶

and listen, it is not harmful to call her by hand — she won't bite — but she also will not give you any diagnostics, and no error messages either, apart from her return value. that's it. she is not going to explain herself to you. she communicates exclusively through vibes (the return value) and she logs to syslog. 💀

🌈 USAGE 🌈

bestie. do NOT call this program directly. 🙈

this program is not intended to be called directly by users, and if you call her improperly — i.e., by some one trying to exploit her — she will log to syslog about it. she's not mad, she's just documenting your little scheme fr fr. 😭

👑 COPYRIGHT 👑

Copyright © 2002-2012 Tollef Fog Heen <tfheen@err.no>.

this is free software; see the source for copying conditions. and hear me when i say it: there is NO warranty; not even for MERCHANTABILITY or FITNESS FOR A PARTICULAR PURPOSE. none. zero. nada. don't come for her if it goes sideways, she warned you. 🫶

and that's the whole page, bestie! 🌟 this was PAM-TMPDIR 0.04, dated Jun 25 2002, and she's been serving safe temp directories since way before it was cool. periodt. 💖✨🎀🦋🌸