request-key (8)

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Copyright (C) 2004 Red Hat, Inc. All Rights Reserved.
Written by David Howells (dhowells@redhat.com)

This program is free software; you can redistribute it and/or
modify it under the terms of the GNU General Public License
as published by the Free Software Foundation; either version
2 of the License, or (at your option) any later version.

(The comments found at the beginning of the groff file "man8/request-key.8".)

NAME

request-key - Handle key instantiation callback requests from the kernel

SYNOPSIS

/sbin/request-key <op> <key> <uid> <gid> <threadring> <processring>         <sessionring> [<info>]

DESCRIPTION

This program is invoked by the kernel when the kernel is asked for a key that it doesn't have immediately available. The kernel creates a partially set up key and then calls out to this program to instantiate it. It is not intended to be called directly.

ERRORS

All errors will be logged to the syslog.

FILES

/etc/request-key.conf Instantiation handler configuration file. /etc/request-key.d/<keytype>.conf Keytype specific configuration file.

SEE ALSO

keyctl(1), request-key.conf(5)