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<refentry id="systemd-creds"
xmlns:xi="http://www.w3.org/2001/XInclude">
<refentryinfo>
<title>systemd-creds</title>
<productname>systemd</productname>
</refentryinfo>
<refmeta>
<refentrytitle>systemd-creds</refentrytitle>
<manvolnum>1</manvolnum>
</refmeta>
<refnamediv>
<refname>systemd-creds</refname>
<refpurpose>Lists, shows, encrypts and decrypts service credentials</refpurpose>
</refnamediv>
<refsynopsisdiv>
<cmdsynopsis>
<command>systemd-creds</command>
<arg choice="opt" rep="repeat">OPTIONS</arg>
<arg choice="plain">COMMAND</arg>
<arg choice="opt" rep="repeat">ARGS</arg>
</cmdsynopsis>
</refsynopsisdiv>
<refsect1>
<title>Description</title>
<para><command>systemd-creds</command> is a tool for listing, showing, encrypting and decrypting unit
credentials. Credentials are limited-size binary or textual objects that may be passed to unit
processes. They are primarily used for passing cryptographic keys (both public and private) or
certificates, user account information or identity information from the host to services.</para>
<para>Credentials are configured in unit files via the <varname>ImportCredential=</varname>,
<varname>LoadCredential=</varname>, <varname>SetCredential=</varname>,
<varname>LoadCredentialEncrypted=</varname>, and <varname>SetCredentialEncrypted=</varname> settings, see
<citerefentry><refentrytitle>systemd.exec</refentrytitle><manvolnum>5</manvolnum></citerefentry> for
details.</para>
<para>For further information see <ulink url="https://systemd.io/CREDENTIALS">System and Service
Credentials</ulink> documentation.</para>
</refsect1>
<refsect1>
<title>Commands</title>
<para>The following commands are understood:</para>
<variablelist>
<varlistentry>
<term><command>list</command></term>
<listitem><para>Show a list of credentials passed into the current execution context. This command
shows the files in the directory referenced by the <varname>$CREDENTIALS_DIRECTORY</varname>
environment variable, and is intended to be executed from within service context.</para>
<para>Along with each credential name, the size and security state is shown. The latter is one of
<literal>secure</literal> (in case the credential is backed by unswappable memory,
i.e. <literal>ramfs</literal>), <literal>weak</literal> (in case it is backed by any other type of
memory), or <literal>insecure</literal> (if having any access mode that is not 0400, i.e. if readable
by anyone but the owner).</para>
<xi:include href="version-info.xml" xpointer="v250"/></listitem>
</varlistentry>
<varlistentry>
<term><command>cat</command> <replaceable>credential...</replaceable></term>
<listitem><para>Show contents of specified credentials passed into the current execution
context. Takes one or more credential names, whose contents shall be written to standard
output.</para>
<para>When combined with <option>--json=</option> or <option>--transcode=</option> the output is
transcoded in simple ways before outputting.</para>
<xi:include href="version-info.xml" xpointer="v250"/></listitem>
</varlistentry>
<varlistentry>
<term><command>setup</command></term>
<listitem><para>Generates a host encryption key for credentials, if one has not been generated
already. This ensures the <filename>/var/lib/systemd/credential.secret</filename> file is initialized
with a random secret key if it doesn't exist yet. This secret key is used when encrypting/decrypting
credentials with <command>encrypt</command> or <command>decrypt</command>, and is only accessible to
the root user. Note that there's typically no need to invoke this command explicitly as it is
implicitly called when <command>encrypt</command> is invoked, and credential host key encryption
selected.</para>
<xi:include href="version-info.xml" xpointer="v250"/></listitem>
</varlistentry>
<varlistentry>
<term><command>encrypt</command> <replaceable>input|-</replaceable> <replaceable>output|-</replaceable></term>
<listitem><para>Loads the specified (unencrypted plaintext) input credential file, encrypts it and
writes the (encrypted ciphertext) output to the specified target credential file. The resulting file
may be referenced in the <varname>LoadCredentialEncrypted=</varname> setting in unit files, or its
contents used literally in <varname>SetCredentialEncrypted=</varname> settings.</para>
<para>Takes two file system paths. The file name part of the output path is embedded as name in the
encrypted credential, to ensure encrypted credentials cannot be renamed and reused for different
purposes without this being noticed. The credential name to embed may be overridden with the
<option>--name=</option> setting. The input or output paths may be specified as <literal>-</literal>,
in which case the credential data is read from/written to standard input and standard output. If the
output path is specified as <literal>-</literal> the credential name cannot be derived from the file
system path, and thus should be specified explicitly via the <option>--name=</option> switch.</para>
<para>The credential data is encrypted and authenticated symmetrically with one of the following
encryption keys:</para>
<orderedlist>
<listitem><para>A secret key automatically derived from the system's TPM2 chip. This encryption key
is not stored on the host system and thus decryption is only possible with access to the original
TPM2 chip. Or in other words, the credential secured in this way can only be decrypted again by the
local machine.</para></listitem>
<listitem><para>A secret key stored in the <filename>/var/lib/systemd/credential.secret</filename>
file which is only accessible to the root user. This "host" encryption key is stored on the host
file system, and thus decryption is possible with access to the host file system and sufficient
privileges. The key is automatically generated when needed, but can also be created explicitly with
the <command>setup</command> command, see above.</para></listitem>
<listitem><para>A combination of the above: an encryption key derived from both the TPM2 chip and
the host file system. This means decryption requires both access to the original TPM2 chip and the
OS installation. This is the default mode of operation if a TPM2 chip is available and
<filename>/var/lib/systemd/</filename> resides on persistent media.</para></listitem>
</orderedlist>
<para>Which of the three keys shall be used for encryption may be configured with the
<option>--with-key=</option> switch. Depending on the use-case for the encrypted credential the key
to use may differ. For example, for credentials that shall be accessible from the initrd, encryption
with the host key is not appropriate, since access to the host key is typically not available from
the initrd. Thus, for such credentials only the TPM2 key should be used.</para>
<para>Encrypted credentials are always encoded in Base64.</para>
<para>Use <command>decrypt</command> (see below) to undo the encryption operation, and acquire the
decrypted plaintext credential from the encrypted ciphertext credential.</para>
<para>The credential data is encrypted using AES256-GCM, i.e. providing both confidentiality and
integrity, keyed by a SHA256 hash of one or both of the secret keys described above.</para>
<xi:include href="version-info.xml" xpointer="v250"/>
</listitem>
</varlistentry>
<varlistentry>
<term><command>decrypt</command> <replaceable>input|-</replaceable>
<optional><replaceable>output|-</replaceable></optional></term>
<listitem><para>Undoes the effect of the <command>encrypt</command> operation: loads the specified
(encrypted ciphertext) input credential file, decrypts and authenticates it and writes the (decrypted
plaintext) output to the specified target credential file.</para>
<para>Takes one or two file system paths. The file name part of the input path is compared with the
credential name embedded in the encrypted file. If it does not match decryption fails. This is done
in order to ensure that encrypted credentials are not re-purposed without this being detected. The
credential name to compare with the embedded credential name may also be overridden with the
<option>--name=</option> switch. If the input path is specified as <literal>-</literal>, the
encrypted credential is read from standard input. If only one path is specified or the output path
specified as <literal>-</literal>, the decrypted credential is written to standard output. In this
mode, the expected name embedded in the credential cannot be derived from the path and should be
specified explicitly with <option>--name=</option>.</para>
<para>Decrypting credentials requires access to the original TPM2 chip and/or credentials host key,
see above. Information about which keys are required is embedded in the encrypted credential data,
and thus decryption is entirely automatic.</para>
<xi:include href="version-info.xml" xpointer="v250"/></listitem>
</varlistentry>
<varlistentry>
<term><command>has-tpm2</command></term>
<listitem><para>Reports whether the system is equipped with a TPM2 device usable for protecting
credentials. If a TPM2 device has been discovered, is supported, and is being used by firmware,
by the OS kernel drivers and by userspace (i.e. systemd) this prints <literal>yes</literal> and exits
with exit status zero. If no such device is discovered/supported/used, prints
<literal>no</literal>. Otherwise prints <literal>partial</literal>. In either of these two cases
exits with non-zero exit status. It also shows four lines indicating separately whether firmware,
drivers, the system and the kernel discovered/support/use TPM2.</para>
<para>Combine with <option>--quiet</option> to suppress the output.</para>
<xi:include href="version-info.xml" xpointer="v251"/></listitem>
</varlistentry>
<xi:include href="standard-options.xml" xpointer="help" />
<xi:include href="standard-options.xml" xpointer="version" />
</variablelist>
</refsect1>
<refsect1>
<title>Options</title>
<variablelist>
<varlistentry>
<term><option>--system</option></term>
<listitem><para>When specified with the <command>list</command> and <command>cat</command> commands
operates on the credentials passed to system as a whole instead of on those passed to the current
execution context. This is useful in container environments where credentials may be passed in from
the container manager.</para>
<xi:include href="version-info.xml" xpointer="v250"/></listitem>
</varlistentry>
<varlistentry>
<term><option>--transcode=</option></term>
<listitem><para>When specified with the <command>cat</command> or <command>decrypt</command>
commands, transcodes the output before showing it. Takes one of <literal>base64</literal>,
<literal>unbase64</literal>, <literal>hex</literal> or <literal>unhex</literal> as argument, in order
to encode/decode the credential data with Base64 or as series of hexadecimal values.</para>
<para>Note that this has no effect on the <command>encrypt</command> command, as encrypted
credentials are unconditionally encoded in Base64.</para>
<xi:include href="version-info.xml" xpointer="v250"/></listitem>
</varlistentry>
<varlistentry>
<term><option>--newline=</option></term>
<listitem><para>When specified with <command>cat</command> or <command>decrypt</command> controls
whether to add a trailing newline character to the end of the output if it doesn't end in one,
anyway. Takes one of <literal>auto</literal>, <literal>yes</literal> or <literal>no</literal>. The
default mode of <literal>auto</literal> will suffix the output with a single newline character only
when writing credential data to a TTY.</para>
<xi:include href="version-info.xml" xpointer="v250"/></listitem>
</varlistentry>
<varlistentry>
<term><option>--pretty</option></term>
<term><option>-p</option></term>
<listitem><para>When specified with <command>encrypt</command> controls whether to show the encrypted
credential as <varname>SetCredentialEncrypted=</varname> setting that may be pasted directly into a
unit file. Has effect only when used together with <option>--name=</option> and <literal>-</literal>
as the output file.</para>
<xi:include href="version-info.xml" xpointer="v250"/></listitem>
</varlistentry>
<varlistentry>
<term><option>--name=</option><replaceable>name</replaceable></term>
<listitem><para>When specified with the <command>encrypt</command> command controls the credential
name to embed in the encrypted credential data. If not specified the name is chosen automatically
from the filename component of the specified output path. If specified as empty string no
credential name is embedded in the encrypted credential, and no verification of credential name is
done when the credential is decrypted.</para>
<para>When specified with the <command>decrypt</command> command control the credential name to
validate the credential name embedded in the encrypted credential with. If not specified the name is
chosen automatically from the filename component of the specified input path. If no credential name
is embedded in the encrypted credential file (i.e. the <option>--name=</option> with an empty string
was used when encrypted) the specified name has no effect as no credential name validation is
done.</para>
<para>Embedding the credential name in the encrypted credential is done in order to protect against
reuse of credentials for purposes they weren't originally intended for, under the assumption the
credential name is chosen carefully to encode its intended purpose.</para>
<xi:include href="version-info.xml" xpointer="v250"/></listitem>
</varlistentry>
<varlistentry>
<term><option>--timestamp=</option><replaceable>timestamp</replaceable></term>
<listitem><para>When specified with the <command>encrypt</command> command controls the timestamp to
embed into the encrypted credential. Defaults to the current time. Takes a timestamp specification in
the format described in
<citerefentry><refentrytitle>systemd.time</refentrytitle><manvolnum>7</manvolnum></citerefentry>.</para>
<para>When specified with the <command>decrypt</command> command controls the timestamp to use to
validate the "not-after" timestamp that was configured with <option>--not-after=</option> during
encryption. If not specified defaults to the current system time.</para>
<xi:include href="version-info.xml" xpointer="v250"/></listitem>
</varlistentry>
<varlistentry>
<term><option>--not-after=</option><replaceable>timestamp</replaceable></term>
<listitem><para>When specified with the <command>encrypt</command> command controls the time when the
credential shall not be used anymore. This embeds the specified timestamp in the encrypted
credential. During decryption the timestamp is checked against the current system clock, and if the
timestamp is in the past the decryption will fail. By default no such timestamp is set. Takes a
timestamp specification in the format described in
<citerefentry><refentrytitle>systemd.time</refentrytitle><manvolnum>7</manvolnum></citerefentry>.</para>
<xi:include href="version-info.xml" xpointer="v250"/></listitem>
</varlistentry>
<varlistentry>
<term><option>--with-key=</option></term>
<term><option>-H</option></term>
<term><option>-T</option></term>
<listitem><para>When specified with the <command>encrypt</command> command controls the
encryption/signature key to use. Takes one of <literal>host</literal>, <literal>tpm2</literal>,
<literal>host+tpm2</literal>, <literal>tpm2-absent</literal>, <literal>auto</literal>,
<literal>auto-initrd</literal>. See above for details on the three key types. If set to
<literal>auto</literal> (which is the default) the TPM2 key is used if a TPM2 device is found and not
running in a container. The host key is used if <filename>/var/lib/systemd/</filename> is on
persistent media. This means on typical systems the encryption is by default bound to both the TPM2
chip and the OS installation, and both need to be available to decrypt the credential again. If
<literal>auto</literal> is selected but neither TPM2 is available (or running in container) nor
<filename>/var/lib/systemd/</filename> is on persistent media, encryption will fail. If set to
<literal>tpm2-absent</literal> a fixed zero length key is used (thus, in this mode no confidentiality
nor authenticity are provided!). This logic is useful to cover for systems that lack a TPM2 chip but
where credentials shall be generated. Note that decryption of such credentials is refused on systems
that have a TPM2 chip and where UEFI SecureBoot is enabled (this is done so that such a locked down
system cannot be tricked into loading a credential generated this way that lacks authentication
information). If set to <literal>auto-initrd</literal> a TPM2 key is used if a TPM2 is found. If not
a fixed zero length key is used, equivalent to <literal>tpm2-absent</literal> mode. This option is
particularly useful to generate credentials files that are encrypted/authenticated against TPM2 where
available but still work on systems lacking support for this.</para>
<para>The <option>-H</option> switch is a shortcut for <option>--with-key=host</option>. Similar,
<option>-T</option> is a shortcut for <option>--with-key=tpm2</option>.</para>
<para>When encrypting credentials that shall be used in the initrd (where
<filename>/var/lib/systemd/</filename> is typically not available) make sure to use
<option>--with-key=auto-initrd</option> mode, to disable binding against the host secret.</para>
<para>This switch has no effect on the <command>decrypt</command> command, as information on which
key to use for decryption is included in the encrypted credential already.</para>
<xi:include href="version-info.xml" xpointer="v250"/></listitem>
</varlistentry>
<varlistentry>
<term><option>--tpm2-device=</option><replaceable>PATH</replaceable></term>
<listitem><para>Controls the TPM2 device to use. Expects a device node path referring to the TPM2
chip (e.g. <filename>/dev/tpmrm0</filename>). Alternatively the special value <literal>auto</literal>
may be specified, in order to automatically determine the device node of a suitable TPM2 device (of
which there must be exactly one). The special value <literal>list</literal> may be used to enumerate
all suitable TPM2 devices currently discovered.</para>
<xi:include href="version-info.xml" xpointer="v250"/></listitem>
</varlistentry>
<varlistentry>
<term><option>--tpm2-pcrs=</option><arg rep="repeat">PCR</arg></term>
<listitem><para>Configures the TPM2 PCRs (Platform Configuration Registers) to bind the encryption
key to. Takes a <literal>+</literal> separated list of numeric PCR indexes in the range 0…23. If not
used, defaults to PCR 7 only. If an empty string is specified, binds the encryption key to no PCRs at
all. For details about the PCRs available, see the documentation of the switch of the same name for
<citerefentry><refentrytitle>systemd-cryptenroll</refentrytitle><manvolnum>1</manvolnum></citerefentry>.</para>
<xi:include href="version-info.xml" xpointer="v250"/></listitem>
</varlistentry>
<varlistentry>
<term><option>--tpm2-public-key=</option><arg>PATH</arg></term>
<term><option>--tpm2-public-key-pcrs=</option><arg rep="repeat">PCR</arg></term>
<listitem><para>Configures a TPM2 signed PCR policy to bind encryption to, for use with the
<command>encrypt</command> command. The <option>--tpm2-public-key=</option> option accepts a path to
a PEM encoded RSA public key, to bind the encryption to. If this is not specified explicitly, but a
file <filename>tpm2-pcr-public-key.pem</filename> exists in one of the directories
<filename>/etc/systemd/</filename>, <filename>/run/systemd/</filename>,
<filename>/usr/lib/systemd/</filename> (searched in this order), it is automatically used. The
<option>--tpm2-public-key-pcrs=</option> option takes a list of TPM2 PCR indexes to bind to (same
syntax as <option>--tpm2-pcrs=</option> described above). If not specified defaults to 11 (i.e. this
binds the policy to any unified kernel image for which a PCR signature can be provided).</para>
<para>Note the difference between <option>--tpm2-pcrs=</option> and
<option>--tpm2-public-key-pcrs=</option>: the former binds decryption to the current, specific PCR
values; the latter binds decryption to any set of PCR values for which a signature by the specified
public key can be provided. The latter is hence more useful in scenarios where software updates shall
be possible without losing access to all previously encrypted secrets.</para>
<xi:include href="version-info.xml" xpointer="v252"/></listitem>
</varlistentry>
<varlistentry>
<term><option>--tpm2-signature=</option><arg>PATH</arg></term>
<listitem><para>Takes a path to a TPM2 PCR signature file as generated by the
<citerefentry><refentrytitle>systemd-measure</refentrytitle><manvolnum>1</manvolnum></citerefentry>
tool and that may be used to allow the <command>decrypt</command> command to decrypt credentials that
are bound to specific signed PCR values. If this is not specified explicitly, and a credential
with a signed PCR policy is attempted to be decrypted, a suitable signature file
<filename>tpm2-pcr-signature.json</filename> is searched for in <filename>/etc/systemd/</filename>,
<filename>/run/systemd/</filename>, <filename>/usr/lib/systemd/</filename> (in this order) and
used.</para>
<xi:include href="version-info.xml" xpointer="v252"/></listitem>
</varlistentry>
<varlistentry>
<term><option>--quiet</option></term>
<term><option>-q</option></term>
<listitem><para>When used with <command>has-tpm2</command> suppresses the output, and only returns an
exit status indicating support for TPM2.</para>
<xi:include href="version-info.xml" xpointer="v251"/></listitem>
</varlistentry>
<xi:include href="standard-options.xml" xpointer="no-pager" />
<xi:include href="standard-options.xml" xpointer="no-legend" />
<xi:include href="standard-options.xml" xpointer="json" />
</variablelist>
</refsect1>
<refsect1>
<title>Exit status</title>
<para>On success, 0 is returned.</para>
<para>In case of the <command>has-tpm2</command> command returns 0 if a TPM2 device is discovered,
supported and used by firmware, driver, and userspace (i.e. systemd). Otherwise returns the OR
combination of the value 1 (in case firmware support is missing), 2 (in case driver support is missing)
and 4 (in case userspace support is missing). If no TPM2 support is available at all, value 7 is hence
returned.</para>
</refsect1>
<refsect1>
<title>Examples</title>
<example>
<title>Encrypt a password for use as credential</title>
<para>The following command line encrypts the specified password <literal>hunter2</literal>, writing the result
to a file <filename>password.cred</filename>.</para>
<programlisting># echo -n hunter2 | systemd-creds encrypt - password.cred</programlisting>
<para>This decrypts the file <filename>password.cred</filename> again, revealing the literal password:</para>
<programlisting># systemd-creds decrypt password.cred
hunter2</programlisting>
</example>
<example>
<title>Encrypt a password and include it in a unit file</title>
<para>The following command line prompts the user for a password and generates a
<varname>SetCredentialEncrypted=</varname> line from it for a credential named
<literal>mysql-password</literal>, suitable for inclusion in a unit file.</para>
<programlisting># systemd-ask-password -n | systemd-creds encrypt --name=mysql-password -p - -
🔐 Password: ****
SetCredentialEncrypted=mysql-password: \
k6iUCUh0RJCQyvL8k8q1UyAAAAABAAAADAAAABAAAAASfFsBoPLIm/dlDoGAAAAAAAAAA \
NAAAAAgAAAAAH4AILIOZ3w6rTzYsBy9G7liaCAd4i+Kpvs8mAgArzwuKxd0ABDjgSeO5k \
mKQc58zM94ZffyRmuNeX1lVHE+9e2YD87KfRFNoDLS7F3YmCb347gCiSk2an9egZ7Y0Xs \
700Kr6heqQswQEemNEc62k9RJnEl2q7SbcEYguegnPQUATgAIAAsAAAASACA/B90W7E+6 \
yAR9NgiIJvxr9bpElztwzB5lUJAxtMBHIgAQACCaSV9DradOZz4EvO/LSaRyRSq2Hj0ym \
gVJk/dVzE8Uxj8H3RbsT7rIBH02CIgm/Gv1ukSXO3DMHmVQkDG0wEciyageTfrVEer8z5 \
9cUQfM5ynSaV2UjeUWEHuz4fwDsXGLB9eELXLztzUU9nsAyLvs3ZRR+eEK/A==</programlisting>
<para>The generated line can be pasted 1:1 into a unit file, and will ensure the acquired password will
be made available in the <varname>$CREDENTIALS_DIRECTORY</varname><filename>/mysql-password</filename>
credential file for the started service.</para>
<para>Utilizing the unit file drop-in logic this can be used to securely pass a password credential to
a unit. A similar, more comprehensive set of commands to insert a password into a service
<filename>xyz.service</filename>:</para>
<programlisting># mkdir -p /etc/systemd/system/xyz.service.d
# systemd-ask-password -n | ( echo "[Service]" &amp;&amp; systemd-creds encrypt --name=mysql-password -p - - ) >/etc/systemd/system/xyz.service.d/50-password.conf
# systemctl daemon-reload
# systemctl restart xyz.service</programlisting>
</example>
</refsect1>
<refsect1>
<title>See Also</title>
<para><simplelist type="inline">
<member><citerefentry><refentrytitle>systemd</refentrytitle><manvolnum>1</manvolnum></citerefentry></member>
<member><citerefentry><refentrytitle>systemd.exec</refentrytitle><manvolnum>5</manvolnum></citerefentry></member>
<member><citerefentry><refentrytitle>systemd-measure</refentrytitle><manvolnum>1</manvolnum></citerefentry></member>
</simplelist></para>
</refsect1>
</refentry>