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| pkttyagentpkttyagent — Textual authentication helper | 
pkttyagent  [--version] [--help]
pkttyagent  [ 
          --process
           { 
              pid
              |   
              pid,pid-start-time
             }
          |   
          --system-bus-name
          busname
         ] [ 
          --notify-fd
          fd
         ] [ 
          --fallback
         ]
      pkttyagent is used to start a textual
      authentication agent for the subject specified by either
      --process or
      --system-bus-name. If neither of these options
      are given, the parent process is used.
    
      To get notified when the authentication agent has been
      registered either listen to the Changed
      D-Bus signal or use --notify-fd to pass the
      number of a file descriptor that has been passed to the
      program. This file descriptor will then be closed when the
      authentication agent has been successfully registered.
    
      If --fallback is used, the textual
      authentication agent will not replace an existing authentication
      agent.
    
If the authentication agent could not be registered, pkttyagent exits with an exit code of 127. Diagnostic messages are printed on standard error.
If one or more of the options passed are malformed, pkttyagent exits with an exit code of 126. If stdin is a tty, then this manual page is also shown.
If the authentication agent was successfully registered, pkttyagent will keep running, interacting with the user as needed. When its services are no longer needed, the process can be killed.
      Since process identifiers can be recycled, the caller should
      always use pid,pid-start-time when
      using the --process option.  The value of
      pid-start-time can be determined by
      consulting e.g. the
      proc(5)
      file system depending on the operating system. If only pid
      is passed to the --process option, then pkttyagent
      will look up the start time itself but note that this may be racy.
    
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