## p11-kit

p11-kit — Tool for operating on configured PKCS#11 modules

## Synopsis

`p11-kit list-modules`

`p11-kit extract` ...

`p11-kit server` ...

## Description

p11-kit is a command line tool that can be used to perform operations on PKCS#11 modules configured on the system.

See the various sub commands below. The following global options can be used:

`-v, --verbose` | Run in verbose mode with debug output.
`-q, --quiet` | Run in quiet mode without warning or failure messages.

## List Modules

List system configured PKCS#11 modules.

    $ p11-kit list-modules

The modules, information about them and the tokens present in the PKCS#11 modules will be displayed.

## Extract

Extract certificates from configured PKCS#11 modules.

This operation has been moved to a separate command trust extract. See trust(1) for more information

## Server

Run a server process that exposes PKCS#11 module remotely.

    $ p11-kit server pkcs11:token1 pkcs11:token2 ...
    $ p11-kit server --provider /path/to/pkcs11-module.so pkcs11:token1 pkcs11:token2 ...

This launches a server that exposes the given PKCS#11 tokens on a local socket. The tokens must belong to the same module. To access the socket, use `p11-kit-client.so` module. The server address and PID are printed as a shell-script snippet which sets the appropriate environment variable: `P11_KIT_SERVER_ADDRESS` and `P11_KIT_SERVER_PID`.

## Extract Trust

Extract standard trust information files.

This operation has been moved to a separate command trust extract-compat. See trust(1) for more information

## Remote

Run a PKCS#11 module remotely.

    $ p11-kit remote /path/to/pkcs11-module.so
    $ p11-kit remote pkcs11:token1 pkcs11:token2 ...

This is not meant to be run directly from a terminal. But rather in a `remote` option in a pkcs11.conf(5) file.

This exposes the given PKCS#11 module or tokens over standard input and output. Those two forms, whether to expose a module or tokens, are mutually exclusive and if the second form is used, the tokens must belong to the same module.

## Bugs

Please send bug reports to either the distribution bug tracker or the upstream bug tracker at https://github.com/p11-glue/p11-kit/issues/.

## See also

pkcs11.conf(5)

Further details available in the p11-kit online documentation at https://p11-glue.github.io/p11-glue/p11-kit/manual/.