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force

  Causes the session keyring of the invoking process to be replaced unconditionally.

revoke

  Causes the session keyring of the invoking process to be revoked when the invoking process exits if the session keyring was created for this process in the first place.

### 6.14.3. MODULE TYPES PROVIDED

Only the `session` module type is provided.

### 6.14.4. RETURN VALUES

PAM_SUCCESS

  This module will usually return this value

PAM_AUTH_ERR

  Authentication failure.

PAM_BUF_ERR

  Memory buffer error.

PAM_IGNORE

  The return value should be ignored by PAM dispatch.

PAM_SERVICE_ERR

  Cannot determine the user name.

PAM_SESSION_ERR

  This module will return this value if its arguments are invalid or if a system error such as ENOMEM occurs.

PAM_USER_UNKNOWN

  User not known.

### 6.14.5. EXAMPLES

Add this line to your login entries to start each login session with its own session keyring:

    session  required  pam_keyinit.so

This will prevent keys from one session leaking into another session for the same user.

### 6.14.6. AUTHOR

pam_keyinit was written by David Howells, <dhowells@redhat.com>.

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