COOLKEY(1)

📦 version 1.1.0, in debian bookworm, debian trixie, ubuntu jammy, ubuntu noble, ubuntu resolute, ubuntu stonking

✨ COOLKEY(1) ✨

okay bestie, pull up a chair 🎀 this is the manual page for coolkey-pk11install, and it lives in the General Commands Manual section of your friendly neighbourhood man pages. it's giving "small tool, big job, absolutely zero chill." let's get into it 💅

🌸 NAME 🌸

coolkey-pk11install — add Coolkey to Mozilla NSS 🦋

✨ SYNOPSIS ✨

coolkey-pk11install [-i] [-u] [-v] [-p] PATH

and the options, decoded for you:

  • i → install
  • u → uninstall
  • v → verbose
  • p → path
that's the whole command line. short. iconic. no notes. 👑

💖 INTRODUCTION 💖

so coolkey-pk11install handles placing the coolkey loadable modules in the right place for integration with web browsers and mail user agents that use Mozilla NSS. that's the job. that's the assignment. 🫶

and here's a quote straight from a coolkey developer, Bob Relyea, because we're citing sources in this essay:

"pk11install is really a generic tool that probably should be moved to NSS (you can change the parameters and install any PKCS #11 module)." ... "It differs form modutil in that it doesn't try to load the module itself to install it. It also differs from modutil in that it 'knows' where several NSS apps store their database (OK, where old netscape and modern mozilla apps). You can run it as a user and install your favorite PKCS #11 module into all the browsers/mailreaders you have installed." — Bob Relyea, a coolkey developer.

(no, we are not fixing the typo in "form." it's part of the historical record now. it's canon. 💀)

🌈 SUMMARY 🌈

(Good luck)

...yeah. that's it. that's the summary. the man page author was in their villain era and honestly? respect. 😭

🎀 FILES 🎀

None. it is up to the user to keep track of state when necessary.

not me reading this and feeling personally responsible for state now 🙈 bestie you are ON YOUR OWN. no scratchpad, no cache file, nothing. remember it with your heart. 💜

🦋 SEE ALSO 🦋

  • mozilla(1),

⭐ HISTORY ⭐

an LGPL licensed security module to allow Smart Card use. 👑

💀 BUGS 💀

Maybe too many. — and that's the entire bug section, verbatim, unhinged, perfect. the honesty. the vulnerability. the main character energy. 🍓

and that's a wrap, bestie! 🧚 this page comes to you from Debian, dated November 28, 2006 — a true vintage drop, still slaying in the manual collection. mwah 💋 no cap, fr fr 🌸💖✨

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