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1 .\"Modified from man(1) of FreeBSD, the NetBSD mdoc.template, and mdoc.samples.
2 .\"See Also:
3 .\"man mdoc.samples for a complete listing of options
4 .\"man mdoc for the short list of editing options
5 .Dd Fri July 20 2018 \" DATE
6 .Dt securityd 1 \" Program name and manual section number
7 .Os Darwin
8 .Sh NAME \" Section Header - required - don't modify
9 .Nm securityd
10 .\" The following lines are read in generating the apropos(man -k) database. Use only key
11 .\" words here as the database is built based on the words here and in the .ND line.
12 .\" Use .Nm macro to designate other names for the documented program.
13 .Nd Security context daemon for keychain and cryptographic operations
14 .Sh SYNOPSIS \" Section Header - required - don't modify
15 .Nm
16 .Sh DESCRIPTION \" Section Header - required - don't modify
17 .Nm
18 maintains security contexts and arbitrates cryptographic operations. Access to
19 keychain items is routed through
20 .Nm
21 to enforce access controls and to keep private keys out of
22 user process address space. All user interaction with
23 .Nm
24 is mediated through the
25 .Nm "Security Agent."
26 .Pp
27 This command is not intended to be invoked directly.
28 .Sh HISTORY
29 .Nm
30 was first introduced in Mac OS X version 10.0 (Cheetah) as the "Security Server" and was renamed in 10.4 (Tiger).
31 .Sh SEE ALSO
32 .Xr authd 8 ,
33 .Xr secd 8