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gnome-keyring-daemon(1) [centos man page]

GNOME-KEYRING-DAEM(1)						   User Commands					     GNOME-KEYRING-DAEM(1)

NAME

       gnome-keyring-daemon - The gnome-keyring daemon

SYNOPSIS

       gnome-keyring-daemon [OPTION...]

DESCRIPTION

       The gnome-keyring-daemon is a service that stores your passwords and secrets. It is normally started automatically when a user logs into a
       desktop session.

       The gnome-keyring-daemon implements the DBus Secret Service API, and you can use tools like seahorse or secret-tool to interact with it.

       The daemon also implements a GnuPG and SSH agent both of which automatically load the user's keys, and prompt for passwords when necessary.

       The daemon will print out various environment variables which should be set in the user's environment, in order to interact with the
       daemon.

OPTIONS

       The various startup arguments below can be used:

       -c, --components=ssh,secrets,gpg,pkcs11
	   Ask the daemon to only initialize certain components. Valid components are ssh, gpg, secrets, pkcs11.

	   By default all components are initialized.

       -C, --control-directory=/path/to/directory
	   Use this directory for creating communication sockets. By default a temporary directory is automatically created.

       -d, --daemonize
	   Run as a real daemon, disconnected from the terminal.

       -f, --foreground
	   Run in the foreground, and do not fork or become a daemon.

       -l, --login
	   This argument tells the daemon it is being run by PAM. It reads all of stdin (including any newlines) as a login password and does not
	   complete actual initialization.

	   The daemon should later be initialized with a gnome-keyring-daemon --start invocation.

	   This option may not be used together with either the --replace or --start arguments.

       -r, --replace
	   Try to replace a running keyring daemon, and assume its environment avriables. A successful replacement depends on the
	   GNOMKE_KEYRING_CONTROL environment variable being set by an earlier daemon.

	   This option may not be used together with either the --login or --start arguments.

       -s, --start
	   Connect to an already running daemon and initialize it. This is often used to complete initialization of a daemon that was started by
	   PAM using the --login argument.

	   This option may not be used together with either the --login or --replace arguments.

       -V, --version
	   Print out the gnome-keyring version and then exit.

       -h, --help
	   Show help options and exit.

BUGS

       Please send bug reports to either the distribution bug tracker or the upstream bug tracker at
       https://bugzilla.gnome.org/enter_bug.cgi?product=gnome-keyring

SEE ALSO

       secret-tool(1), seahorse(1)

       Further details available in the gnome-keyring online documentation at https://wiki.gnome.org/GnomeKeyring and in the secret-service online
       documentation at http://standards.freedesktop.org/secret-service/

gnome-keyring														     GNOME-KEYRING-DAEM(1)

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libgnome-keyring(3)						C Library Functions					       libgnome-keyring(3)

NAME

       libgnome-keyring - gnome keyring library.

DESCRIPTION

       GNOME Keyring is a system to store passwords and other sensitive data in a standardized way across all GNOME applications.

       A  keyring  stores  a collection of encrypted passwords and encrypted information about those passwords. A user can have multiple keyrings,
       each for a different use, but there is a default one, called 'login'. There is also a special 'session' keyring which is not stored on disk
       and goes away when you log out.

       When a user logs into GNOME, the keyrings are locked and a master keyring password has to be provided in order to unlock each of them.

       GNOME  Keyring  includes  an  SSH  agent which integrates with the gnome-keyring and user login for its passwords. It can also use the main
       X.509 private key store.

       GNOME Keyring will set the SSH_AUTH_SOCK environment variable when it starts up.

       The id_rsa and id_dsa files in ~/.ssh are automatically usable through the SSH agent without first 'loading' them. Other X.509 private keys
       marked with the 'ssh-authentication' purpose are also usable.

       Additional SSH keys can be manually loaded and managed via the ssh-add command.

       If  you	use another SSH agent(such as the ssh-agent included with OpenSSH), you may want to disable the SSH agent in GNOME Keyring to pre-
       vent ssh from using it instead of your prefered SSH agent. You can set /apps/gnome-keyring/daemon-components/ssh gconf key to  false.  This
       prevents the SSH component of gnome-keyring from starting up when the user logs in.

ATTRIBUTES

       See attributes(5) for descriptions of the following attributes:

       +-----------------------------+-----------------------------+
       |      ATTRIBUTE TYPE	     |	    ATTRIBUTE VALUE	   |
       +-----------------------------+-----------------------------+
       |Availability		     |SUNWgnome-libs		   |
       +-----------------------------+-----------------------------+
       |Interface stability	     |Volatile			   |
       +-----------------------------+-----------------------------+

SEE ALSO

       gnome-keyring-daemon(1), attributes(5), gnome-interfaces(5)

       http://library.gnome.org/devel/gnome-keyring/stable/

NOTES

       Written by Jeff Cai, Sun Microsystems Inc., 2008.

SunOS 5.11							    31 Jul 2008 					       libgnome-keyring(3)
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