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diff --git a/modules/pam_keyinit/README b/modules/pam_keyinit/README deleted file mode 100644 index fa503700..00000000 --- a/modules/pam_keyinit/README +++ /dev/null @@ -1,67 +0,0 @@ -pam_keyinit — Kernel session keyring initialiser module - -━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━ - -DESCRIPTION - -The pam_keyinit PAM module ensures that the invoking process has a session -keyring other than the user default session keyring. - -The module checks to see if the process's session keyring is the -user-session-keyring(7), and, if it is, creates a new session-keyring(7) with -which to replace it. If a new session keyring is created, it will install a -link to the user-keyring(7) in the session keyring so that keys common to the -user will be automatically accessible through it. The session keyring of the -invoking process will thenceforth be inherited by all its children unless they -override it. - -In order to allow other PAM modules to attach tokens to the keyring, this -module provides both an auth (limited to pam_setcred(3) and a session -component. The session keyring is created in the module called. Moreover this -module should be included as early as possible in a PAM configuration. - -This module is intended primarily for use by login processes. Be aware that -after the session keyring has been replaced, the old session keyring and the -keys it contains will no longer be accessible. - -This module should not, generally, be invoked by programs like su, since it is -usually desirable for the key set to percolate through to the alternate -context. The keys have their own permissions system to manage this. - -The keyutils package is used to manipulate keys more directly. This can be -obtained from: - -Keyutils - -OPTIONS - -debug - - Log debug information with syslog(3). - -force - - Causes the session keyring of the invoking process to be replaced - unconditionally. - -revoke - - Causes the session keyring of the invoking process to be revoked when the - invoking process exits if the session keyring was created for this process - in the first place. - -EXAMPLES - -Add this line to your login entries to start each login session with its own -session keyring: - -session required pam_keyinit.so - - -This will prevent keys from one session leaking into another session for the -same user. - -AUTHOR - -pam_keyinit was written by David Howells, <dhowells@redhat.com>. - |