NAME<\/a> consolehelper \u2212 A wrapper that helps console users run system programs<\/p>\n progname<\/i> [ options<\/i> ]<\/p>\n consolehelper<\/b> is a tool that makes it easy for console users to run system programs, doing authentication via PAM (which can be set up to trust all console users or to ask for a password at the system administrator\u2019s discretion). When possible, the authentication is done graphically; otherwise, it is done within the text console from which consolehelper was started.<\/p>\n It is intended to be completely transparent. This means that the user will never run the consolehelper program directly. Instead, programs like \/sbin\/shutdown are paired with a link from \/usr\/bin\/shutdown to \/usr\/bin\/consolehelper. Then when non-root users (specifically, users without \/sbin in their path, or \/sbin after \/usr\/bin) call the “shutdown” program, consolehelper will be invoked to authenticate the action and then invoke \/sbin\/shutdown. (consolehelper itself has no priviledges; it calls the userhelper<\/i>(8) program do the real work.)<\/p>\n consolehelper requires that a PAM configuration for every managed program exist. So to make \/sbin\/foo<\/i> or \/usr\/sbin\/foo<\/i> managed, you need to create a link from \/usr\/bin\/foo<\/i> to \/usr\/bin\/consolehelper and create the file \/etc\/pam.d\/foo<\/i>, normally using the pam_console<\/i>(8) PAM module.<\/p>\n This program has no command line options of its own; it passes all command line options on to the program it is calling.<\/p>\n
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