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:

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.

List Profiles

List PKCS#11 profiles supported by the token.

$ p11-kit list-profiles pkcs11:token

This searches the given token for profile objects that contain profile IDs which are then displayed in human-readable form.

Add Profile

Add PKCS#11 profile to the token.

$ p11-kit add-profile --profile profile pkcs11:token

Creates a new PKCS#11 profile object on the token if it doesn't already exist.

Delete Profile

Delete PKCS#11 profile from the token.

$ p11-kit delete-profile --profile profile pkcs11:token

Searches the token for profile object that matches given PKCS#11 profile ID and attempts to destroy it.

Print Config

Print merged configuration.

$ p11-kit print-config

P11-kit provides 3 levels of configuration: system wide, per-module, and per-user. At run-time all 3 levels are merged into a single configuration. This command displays the merged configuration.

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

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