nss/SOURCES/secmod.db.xml

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<?xml version='1.0' encoding='utf-8'?>
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<!ENTITY date SYSTEM "date.xml">
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<refentry id="secmod.db">
<refentryinfo>
<date>&date;</date>
<title>Network Security Services</title>
<productname>nss</productname>
<productnumber>&version;</productnumber>
</refentryinfo>
<refmeta>
<refentrytitle>secmod.db</refentrytitle>
<manvolnum>5</manvolnum>
</refmeta>
<refnamediv>
<refname>secmod.db</refname>
<refpurpose>Legacy NSS security modules database</refpurpose>
</refnamediv>
<refsection id="description">
<title>Description</title>
<para><emphasis>secmod.db</emphasis> is an NSS security modules database.</para>
<para>The security modules database is used to keep track of the NSS security modules. The NSS security modules export their services via the PKCS #11 API which NSS uses as its Services Provider Interface.
</para>
<para>The command line utility <emphasis>modutil</emphasis> is used for managing PKCS #11 module information both within secmod.db files and within hardware tokens.
</para>
<para>For new applications the recommended way of tracking security modules is via the pkcs11.txt configuration file used in conjunction the new sqlite-based shared database format for certificate and key databases.
</para>
</refsection>
<refsection>
<title>Files</title>
<para><filename>/etc/pki/nssdb/secmod.db</filename></para>
</refsection>
<refsection>
<title>See also</title>
<para>modutil(1), cert8.db(5), cert9.db(5), key3.db(5), key4.db(5), pkcs11.txt(5)</para>
</refsection>
<refsection id="authors">
<title>Authors</title>
<para>The nss libraries were written and maintained by developers with Netscape, Red Hat, Sun, Oracle, Mozilla, and Google.</para>
<para>Authors: Elio Maldonado &lt;emaldona@redhat.com>.</para>
</refsection>
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<refsection id="license">
<title>LICENSE</title>
<para>Licensed under the Mozilla Public License, v. 2.0. If a copy of the MPL was not distributed with this file, You can obtain one at http://mozilla.org/MPL/2.0/.
</para>
</refsection>
</refentry>