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6 gnome-keyring-daemon - The gnome-keyring daemon
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9 gnome-keyring-daemon [OPTION...]
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12 The gnome-keyring-daemon is a service that stores your passwords and
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16 The gnome-keyring-daemon implements the DBus Secret Service API, and
17 you can use tools like seahorse or secret-tool to interact with it.
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19 The daemon also implements a GnuPG and SSH agent both of which
20 automatically load the user's keys, and prompt for passwords when
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23 The daemon will print out various environment variables which should be
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27 The various startup arguments below can be used:
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29 -c, --components=ssh,secrets,pkcs11
30 Ask the daemon to only initialize certain components. Valid
31 components are ssh, secrets, pkcs11.
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35 -C, --control-directory=/path/to/directory
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39 -d, --daemonize
40 Run as a real daemon, disconnected from the terminal.
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43 Run in the foreground, and do not fork or become a daemon.
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46 This argument tells the daemon it is being run by PAM. It reads all
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56 -r, --replace
57 Try to replace a running keyring daemon, and assume its environment
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66 Connect to an already running daemon and initialize it. This is
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74 Read a password from stdin, and use it to unlock the login keyring
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78 Print out the gnome-keyring version and then exit.
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91 Further details available in the gnome-keyring online documentation at
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