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<refentry id="secmod.db">

  <refentryinfo>

    <date>&dat;;</date>

    <title>Network Security Services</title>

    <productname>nss</productname>

    <productnumber>&version;</productnumber>

  </refentryinfo>

  <refmeta>

    <refentrytitle>secmod.db</refentrytitle>

    <manvolnum>5</manvolnum>

  </refmeta>

  <refnamediv>

    <refname>secmod.db</refname>

    <refpurpose>Legacy NSS security modules database</refpurpose>

  </refnamediv>

<refsection id="description">

    <title>Description</title>

    <para><emphasis>secmod.db</emphasis> is an NSS security modules database.</para>

  <para>The security modules database is used to keep track of the NSS security modules. The NSS security modules export their services via the PKCS #11 API which NSS uses as its Services Provider Interface.

  </para>

  <para>The command line utility <emphasis>modutil</emphasis> is used for managing PKCS #11 module information both within secmod.db files and within hardware tokens.

  </para>

  <para>For new applications the recommended way of tracking security modules is via the pkcs11.txt configuration file used in conjunction the new sqlite-based shared database format for certificate and key databases.

  </para>

  </refsection>

  <refsection>

    <title>Files</title>

    <para><filename>/etc/pki/nssdb/secmod.db</filename></para>

  </refsection>

  <refsection>

    <title>See also</title>

    <para>modutil(1), cert8.db(5), cert9.db(5), key3.db(5), key4.db(5), pkcs11.txt(5)</para>

  </refsection>

  <refsection id="authors">

    <title>Authors</title>

    <para>The nss libraries were written and maintained by developers with Netscape, Red Hat, Sun, Oracle, Mozilla, and Google.</para>

    <para>Authors: Elio Maldonado <emaldona@redhat.com>.</para>

  </refsection>

  <refsection id="license">

    <title>LICENSE</title>

    <para>Licensed under the Mozilla Public License, v. 2.0.  If a copy of the MPL was not distributed with this file, You can obtain one at http://mozilla.org/MPL/2.0/.

    </para>

  </refsection>

</refentry>