Hello David, On 12/15/2016 11:10 AM, David Howells wrote: > Michael Kerrisk (man-pages) <mtk.manpa...@gmail.com> wrote: > >>> │Is 'keyring' allowed to be 0? Reading the source, it │ >>> │appears so. In this case, by default, the key is │ >>> │assigned to the session keyring. But, the │ >>> │KEYCTL_SET_REQKEY_KEYRING also seems to have an │ >>> │influence here. What are the details here? │ > > Yes, the destination keyring can be 0. If you don't specify a destination > keyring, then: > > (1) If the key is found to already exist, the serial number is returned, but > no extra link is made. > > (2) If an error occurs other than "this key doesn't exist", then you'll just > get the error. > > (3) If we have to construct a new key, this will be attached to the default > keyring (as there's no destination keyring to attach to).
Okay. Please take a look at the revised text that I'll send out after applying Eugene's patch. (Mail in a few minutes.) >>> # echo 'create user mtk:* * /bin/keyctl instantiate %k %c %S' \ >>> > /etc/request-keys.conf > > There's a /etc/request-keys.d/ directory now. Yes, I'm aware. Did you mean I should fix something on this page? Cheers, Michael -- Michael Kerrisk Linux man-pages maintainer; http://www.kernel.org/doc/man-pages/ Linux/UNIX System Programming Training: http://man7.org/training/
