PASSWORD(6)                                           PASSWORD(6)

     NAME
          password - signer password file

     DESCRIPTION
          The file /keydb/password holds the password entries for each
          user registered with an Inferno server.  It is updated by
          changelogin(8) and used by logind(8) to obtain the secret
          used to verify the identity of a client requesting a cer-
          tificate (typically via security-login(2)).

          The file is currently a text file with one line per entry.
          Each line has the form:

               id:pw:expiry:comment

          in other words, four fields separated by single colons.  The
          fields correspond to the members of the PW adt of security-
          password(2). Id is a name identifying a user; pw is the
          base64 encoding of the SHA digest of the user's secret
          (password); expiry is a numeric string in decimal giving the
          expiry time as seconds from the epoch; and the comment is an
          optional text string containing any administrative data
          (excluding `:' and newline).

     FILES
          /keydb/password

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