PKCSSLOTD(8)							   openCryptoki 						      PKCSSLOTD(8)

NAME

       pkcsslotd - shared memory manager for opencryptoki

DESCRIPTION

       The  pkcsslotd daemon manages PKCS#11 objects between PKCS#11-enabled applications. When 2 or more processes are accessing the same crypto-
       graphic token, the daemon is notified and updates each application when the token's objects change.

NOTES

       Only one instance of the pkcsslotd daemon should be running on any given host. If a prior instance of pkcsslotd did not shut down  cleanly,
       then  it  may  leave an allocated shared memory segment on the system. The allocated memory segment can be identified by its key and can be
       safely removed once the daemon is stopped with the ipcrm command, such as:

       ipcrm -M 0x6202AB38

       The daemon creates the shared memory segment with group ownership by the pkcs11 group. All non-root users that should be able to use  open-
       Cryptoki  need  to  be  members	of the group. Only trusted users should be assigned to the group, see the "SECURITY NOTE" in the opencryp-
       toki(7) manual page for details.

SEE ALSO

       opencryptoki(7),
       pkcsconf(1),
       pk_config_data(5),
       pkcs11_startup(1).

3.0								     May 2007							      PKCSSLOTD(8)