Re: Issue in man page session-keyring.7

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Hello Alex,
On Sat, Mar 11, 2023 at 11:24:53PM +0100, Alejandro Colomar wrote:
> On 3/11/23 18:13, Helge Kreutzmann wrote:
> > Without further ado, the following was found:
> > 
> > Issue:    PAM → B<PAM>(7)
> > 
> > "The session keyring is a keyring used to anchor keys on behalf of a "
> > "process.  It is typically created by B<pam_keyinit>(8)  when a user logs in "
> > "and a link will be added that refers to the B<user-keyring>(7).  Optionally, "
> > "PAM may revoke the session keyring on logout.  (In typical configurations, "
> > "PAM does do this revocation.)  The session keyring has the name "
> > "(description)  I<_ses>."
> 
> I think I prefer not doing this change, since we already have a reference
> to PAM(7) in the SEE ALSO section, and it would clutter the description
> to add more formatting to it.  I'm doubting.

Ok.

Just that in HTML view, these are often turned into hyperlinks, thus
people could easily continue reading (like in any HTML article). But I
don't know how many people are actually doing this.

(And of course knowing that PAM(7) even exists in the text is not too
bad, either).

Greetings

         Helge


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