pmvarrun(8)

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🌸 Name 🌸

okay bestie, this is pmvarrun(8) from the pam_mount manual 🫶✨. The whole vibe? pmvarrun updates /var/run/pam_mount/user. Periodt 💅.

✨ Syntax ✨

pmvarrun -u user [options]

🦋 Description 🦋

So here's the tea: a separate program is needed so that /var/run/pam_mount/user may be created with a pam_mount-specific security context — otherwise SELinux policy will conflict with gdm, which also creates file in /var/run 😭. Like, that's the whole reason this little icon exists.

pmvarrun is flexible and can run in a number of different security setups:

👑 root-root

When pmvarrun is invoked as root, /var/run/pam_mount's permission settings can be as strict as needed; usually (0755,root,root) is a good pick, as it gives users the debug control over their refcount 🔥. Refcount files are given their respective owners (chowned to the user who logs in).

🌸 user-user

When invoked as the user who logs in, /var/run/pam_mount needs appropriate permissions to create a file, which means the write bit must be set ✅. It is also highly suggested to set the sticky bit in this case, so other users do not tamper with your refcount 🔒.

🧚 root-user

Some programs or login helpers incorrectly call the PAM stack in a way that the login phase is done as root and the logout phase as a normal user 😵‍💫. Nevertheless, pmvarrun supports this, and the same permissions as in root-root can be used. While the user may not be able to unlink his file from /var/run/pam_mount, it will be truncated to indicate the same state.

💖 Options 💖

  • --help, -h — Display help.
  • --user user, -u user — User to handle, must be a valid username.
  • --operation number, -o number — Increase volume count by number.
  • -d — Turn on debugging.

🎀 Files 🎀

  • /var/run/pam_mount/user — the file pmvarrun updates.

💜 Author 💜

This manpage was originally written by Bastian Kleineidam <calvin@debian.org> for the Debian distribution of libpam-mount but may be used by others 🫶.

See /usr/share/doc/packages/pam_mount/AUTHORS for the list of original authors of pam_mount.

byeee bestie 🌈 — source/version: pam_mount; date: 2008-10-08; manual: pmvarrun(8). mwah 💋🎀

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