PKCSSLOTD(8) openCryptoki PKCSSLOTD(8)NAMEpkcsslotd - 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 opencryptoki(7)
manual page for details.
SEE ALSOopencryptoki(7),
pkcsconf(1),
pk_config_data(5),
pkcs11_startup(1).
2.4.3.1 May 2007 PKCSSLOTD(8)
