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 certificates 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)

LOGIND(8 )

Rev:  Tue Mar 31 02:42:38 GMT 2015