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-rw-r--r--man/systemd-ask-password.xml43
-rw-r--r--man/systemd-tty-ask-password-agent.xml10
2 files changed, 35 insertions, 18 deletions
diff --git a/man/systemd-ask-password.xml b/man/systemd-ask-password.xml
index 2b6fb5a82f..8d3355819b 100644
--- a/man/systemd-ask-password.xml
+++ b/man/systemd-ask-password.xml
@@ -61,10 +61,9 @@
a system password or passphrase from the user, using a question
message specified on the command line. When run from a TTY it will
query a password on the TTY and print it to standard output. When
- run with no TTY or with <option>--no-tty</option> it will query
- the password system-wide and allow active users to respond via
- several agents. The latter is only available to privileged
- processes.</para>
+ run with no TTY or with <option>--no-tty</option> it will use the
+ system-wide query mechanism, which allows active users to respond via
+ several agents, listed below.</para>
<para>The purpose of this tool is to query system-wide passwords
— that is passwords not attached to a specific user account.
@@ -76,25 +75,38 @@
<itemizedlist>
<listitem><para>A boot-time password agent asking the user for
- passwords using Plymouth</para></listitem>
+ passwords using
+ <citerefentry project='die-net'><refentrytitle>plymouth</refentrytitle><manvolnum>8</manvolnum></citerefentry>,
+ </para></listitem>
<listitem><para>A boot-time password agent querying the user
- directly on the console</para></listitem>
+ directly on the console —
+ <citerefentry><refentrytitle>systemd-ask-password-console.service</refentrytitle><manvolnum>8</manvolnum></citerefentry>,
+ </para></listitem>
<listitem><para>An agent requesting password input via a
- <citerefentry
- project='man-pages'><refentrytitle>wall</refentrytitle><manvolnum>1</manvolnum></citerefentry>
- message</para></listitem>
-
- <listitem><para>A command line agent which can be started
- temporarily to process queued password
- requests</para></listitem>
+ <citerefentry project='man-pages'><refentrytitle>wall</refentrytitle><manvolnum>1</manvolnum></citerefentry>
+ message —
+ <citerefentry><refentrytitle>systemd-ask-password-wall.service</refentrytitle><manvolnum>8</manvolnum></citerefentry>,
+ </para></listitem>
<listitem><para>A TTY agent that is temporarily spawned during
<citerefentry><refentrytitle>systemctl</refentrytitle><manvolnum>1</manvolnum></citerefentry>
- invocations</para></listitem>
+ invocations,</para></listitem>
+
+ <listitem><para>A command line agent which can be started
+ temporarily to process queued password
+ requests — <command>systemd-tty-ask-password-agent --query</command>.
+ </para></listitem>
</itemizedlist></para>
+ <para>Answering system-wide password queries is a privileged operation, hence
+ all the agents listed above (except for the last one), run as privileged
+ system services. The last one also needs elevated privileges, so
+ should be run through
+ <citerefentry project='die-net'><refentrytitle>sudo</refentrytitle><manvolnum>8</manvolnum></citerefentry>
+ or similar.</para>
+
<para>Additional password agents may be implemented according to
the <ulink
url="http://www.freedesktop.org/wiki/Software/systemd/PasswordAgents">systemd
@@ -217,7 +229,8 @@
<title>See Also</title>
<para>
<citerefentry><refentrytitle>systemd</refentrytitle><manvolnum>1</manvolnum></citerefentry>,
- <citerefentry><refentrytitle>systemctl</refentrytitle><manvolnum>1</manvolnum></citerefentry>,
+ <citerefentry><refentrytitle>systemd-ask-password-console.service</refentrytitle><manvolnum>8</manvolnum></citerefentry>,
+ <citerefentry><refentrytitle>systemd-tty-ask-password</refentrytitle><manvolnum>1</manvolnum></citerefentry>,
<citerefentry project='die-net'><refentrytitle>keyctl</refentrytitle><manvolnum>1</manvolnum></citerefentry>,
<citerefentry project='die-net'><refentrytitle>plymouth</refentrytitle><manvolnum>8</manvolnum></citerefentry>,
<citerefentry project='man-pages'><refentrytitle>wall</refentrytitle><manvolnum>1</manvolnum></citerefentry>
diff --git a/man/systemd-tty-ask-password-agent.xml b/man/systemd-tty-ask-password-agent.xml
index 2876fab644..2e4b31be07 100644
--- a/man/systemd-tty-ask-password-agent.xml
+++ b/man/systemd-tty-ask-password-agent.xml
@@ -50,7 +50,9 @@
<refsynopsisdiv>
<cmdsynopsis>
- <command>systemd-tty-ask-password-agent <arg choice="opt" rep="repeat">OPTIONS</arg> <arg choice="opt" rep="repeat">VARIABLE=VALUE</arg></command>
+ <command>systemd-tty-ask-password-agent</command>
+ <arg choice="opt" rep="repeat">OPTIONS</arg>
+ <arg choice="opt" rep="repeat">VARIABLE=VALUE</arg>
</cmdsynopsis>
</refsynopsisdiv>
@@ -65,8 +67,10 @@
<para><command>systemd-tty-ask-password-agent</command> implements
the <ulink url="http://www.freedesktop.org/wiki/Software/systemd/PasswordAgents">Password
- Agents Specification</ulink>.</para>
-
+ Agents Specification</ulink>, and is one of many possible response agents which
+ answer to queries formulated with
+ <citerefentry><refentrytitle>systemd-ask-password</refentrytitle><manvolnum>1</manvolnum></citerefentry>.
+ </para>
</refsect1>
<refsect1>