= logind: login daemon

== SYNOPSIS

*auth/logind*


_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)