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| -rw-r--r-- | man7/keyrings.7 | 20 | ||||
| -rw-r--r-- | man7/persistent-keyring.7 | 2 | ||||
| -rw-r--r-- | man7/session-keyring.7 | 2 |
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diff --git a/man7/keyrings.7 b/man7/keyrings.7 index 385ee07b11..96d9b37410 100644 --- a/man7/keyrings.7 +++ b/man7/keyrings.7 @@ -14,7 +14,7 @@ .SH NAME keyrings \- in-kernel key management and retention facility .\""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""" -.SH OVERVIEW +.SH DESCRIPTION The .B keyrings facility is primarily a way for drivers to retain or cache security data, @@ -52,7 +52,7 @@ This document contains the following sections: .br .\""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""" .P -.SH KEYS +.SS Keys The facility provides the concept of a '\fBkey\fR', where all of the above examples are encapsulated within objects of this type. .P @@ -111,7 +111,7 @@ See the .BR keyctl_describe (3) manual page for more information. .\""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""" -.SH KEY TYPES +.SS Key types .P The facility provides several basic types of key: .IP "\fBkeyring\fR" @@ -138,7 +138,7 @@ There are more specialised key types available also, but they're not discussed here as they're not intended for normal userspace use. .\""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""" .P -.SH KEYRINGS +.SS Keyrings As previously mentioned, keyrings are a special type of key that contain links to other keys (which may include other keyrings). Keys may be linked to by multiple keyrings. @@ -173,7 +173,7 @@ and .BR keyctl_unlink (3) manual pages for more information. .\""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""" -.SH ANCHORING KEYS +.SS Anchoring keys .P To prevent a key from being prematurely garbage collected, it must anchored to keep its reference count elevated @@ -239,7 +239,7 @@ and .BR persistent-keyring (7) manual pages for more information. .\""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""" -.SH POSSESSION +.SS Possession .P The concept of '\fBpossession\fR' is important to understanding the keyrings security model. @@ -273,7 +273,7 @@ When it creates the session keyring, adds a link to the user keyring, thus making the user keyring and anything it contains possessed by default. .\""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""" -.SH ACCESS RIGHTS +.SS Access rights .P Each key has the following security-related attributes: .P @@ -347,7 +347,7 @@ and .BR selinux (8) manual pages for more information. .\""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""" -.SH SEARCHING FOR KEYS +.SS Searching for keys .P One of the key features of this facility is the ability to find a key that it is retaining. @@ -391,7 +391,7 @@ and .BR keyctl_search (3) for more information. .\""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""" -.SH ON-DEMAND KEY CREATION +.SS On-demand key creation .P If a key cannot be found, .BR request_key (2) @@ -422,7 +422,7 @@ and .BR request-key.conf (5) manual pages for more information. .\""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""" -.SH USERS +.SS Users .P The facility has a number of users and usages, but is not limited to those that already exist. diff --git a/man7/persistent-keyring.7 b/man7/persistent-keyring.7 index ee2dd54d73..4c4fb6be14 100644 --- a/man7/persistent-keyring.7 +++ b/man7/persistent-keyring.7 @@ -48,7 +48,7 @@ in the destruction of the user and user session keyrings). .P If a persistent keyring does not exist when it is accessed, it will be created. -.SH SPECIAL OPERATIONS +.SS Special operations The keyutils library provides a special operation for manipulating persistent keyrings: .IP \fBkeyctl_get_persistent\fP() diff --git a/man7/session-keyring.7 b/man7/session-keyring.7 index 8b23760eb5..8ad5c43f12 100644 --- a/man7/session-keyring.7 +++ b/man7/session-keyring.7 @@ -44,7 +44,7 @@ refers to it exits. If a process doesn't have a session keyring when it is accessed, then, under certain circumstances, the \fBuser session keyring\fR will be attached as the session keyring and under others a new session keyring will be created. -.SH SPECIAL OPERATIONS +.SS Special operations The keyutils library provides a number of special operations for manipulating session keyrings: .IP \fBkeyctl_join_session_keyring\fP() |
