pkcs11_make_hash_link(1)

✨ pkcs11_make_hash_link — the manual page, bestie edition ✨

okay so you're reading the pkcs11_make_hash_link(1) page from the General Commands Manual and honestly? it's a short one, so let's get into it 💅

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🌸 NAME 🌸

pkcs11_make_hash_link — SmartCard PKCS#11 create a CA certificate link 🎀

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🦋 SYNTAX 🦋

pkcs11_make_hash_link

that's it. no flags, no arguments, no drama. it just does the thing 👑

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💖 DESCRIPTION 💖

so pkcs11_make_hash_link creates a symbolic hash-link for each CA certificate and each CRL in the given directory. periodt. 🫶

like, every CA cert and every CRL sitting in that directory gets its own little symlink bestie so everything can find everything else. it's giving matchmaker energy fr fr 💞

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🌈 EXAMPLE 🌈

here's the whole glow-up in action, step by step ✨

first you roll up into the directory:

$ cd /etc/pam_pkcs11/cacerts

then you peek at what's there:

$ ls -l
total 4
-rw-r--r-- 1 root root 985 avr  4  2007 testCA-cacert.der

just a regular file, minding its own business 😭

then you hit it with the sudo:

$ sudo pkcs11_make_hash_link

and then you look again:

$ ls -l
total 4
lrwxrwxrwx 1 root root  17 déc 17 11:27 d0e0e6f3.0 -> testCA-cacert.der
-rw-r--r-- 1 root root 985 avr  4  2007 testCA-cacert.der

NOT the symlink appearing out of nowhere 😭💀 the way d0e0e6f3.0 just points right at testCA-cacert.der — that's the hash-link, that's the whole serve. iconic behaviour, no notes. 🔥

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👑 AUTHORS 👑

Juan Antonio Martinez <jonsito@teleline.es> — thank you for your service, king 🫡💜

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💅 SEE ALSO 💅

• pam_pkcs11(8)
• PAM-PKCS11 User Manual

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and that's the page bestie, we're done here 🌸 the source is pkcs11_make_hash_link(1) and the date on this lil footer is the same pkcs11_make_hash_link(1) — mwah, go make some links 💖✨🎀