LOGIND(8) LOGIND(8)
NAME
logind - login daemon
SYNOPSIS
auth/logind
DESCRIPTION
Logind is normally started by svc(8) to service requests on
the inflogin TCP/IP port, to provide a `signing' service
(identity authentication) for a network. Ultimately, the
client receives a certificate that can be used to establish
its identity with any host that is willing to honour cer-
tificates from the certificate's signer.
The signer constructs the certificate from the contents of
the signer's key file /keydb/signerkey, typically created by
createsignerkey(8), and the ID string and password supplied
by the client (which are used to access keyfs(4) to check
identity).
The protocol involves an exchange of information between the
client and server, as summarised in login(6). The client
side of this exchange can be managed by the Login module;
see security-login(2).
Client and server communicate over the Secure Socket Layer
device ssl(3).
FILES
/keydb/keys
/keydb/signerkey
SOURCE
/appl/cmd/auth/logind.b
SEE ALSO
security-login(2), ssl(3), keyfs(4), keys(6),
changelogin(8), createsignerkey(8), svc(8)
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