systemd-keyutil — Perform various operations on private keys and X.509 certificates
systemd-keyutil [OPTIONS...] {COMMAND}
systemd-keyutil can be used to perform various operations on private keys and X.509 certificates.
validate¶Checks that we can load the private key and certificate specified with
--private-key= and --certificate= respectively.
As a side effect, if the private key is loaded from a PIN-protected hardware token, this
command can be used to cache the PIN in the kernel keyring. The
$SYSTEMD_ASK_PASSWORD_KEYRING_TIMEOUT_SEC and
$SYSTEMD_ASK_PASSWORD_KEYRING_TYPE environment variables can be used to control
how long and in which kernel keyring the PIN is cached.
This commands prints the public key in PEM format extracted from either the
certificate given with --certificate= or the private key given with
--private-key=.
The following options are understood:
--private-key=PATH/URI, --private-key-source=TYPE[:NAME], --certificate=PATH, --certificate-source=TYPE[:NAME]¶Set the private key and certificate to use. The --certificate=
option takes a path to a PEM encoded X.509 certificate or a URI that's passed to the OpenSSL provider
configured with --certificate-source. The --certificate-source
takes one of "file" or "provider", with the latter being followed
by a specific provider identifier, separated with a colon, e.g. "provider:pkcs11".
The --private-key= option can take a path or a URI that will be passed to the
OpenSSL engine or provider, as specified by --private-key-source= as a
"type:name" tuple, such as "engine:pkcs11".
-h, --help¶--version¶