Keyring

Creating a New Session

$ keyctl new_session

Displaying Session Keyring

$ keyctl show
Session Keyring
 995212359 --alswrv      0     0  keyring: _ses
 869008619 --alswrv      0     0   \_ user: testuser

Displaying User Keyring

$ keyctl show @u
Keyring
 853797413 --alswrv      0 65534  keyring: _uid.0
 718614445 --alswrv      0     0   \_ user: testuser

Getting Key ID

$ keyctl request user testuser
869008619

Storing a Password into Session Keyring

$ keyctl add user testuser Secret.123 @s

Storing a Password into User Keyring

$ keyctl add user testuser Secret.123 @u

Retrieving a Password

$ keyctl print %user:testuser
Secret.123

$ keyctl print 869008619
Secret.123

Clearing User Keyring

$ keyctl clear @u

See Also

• Password caching

• keyctl

• Tip: keyctl in a bash script

• Nuxwdog