himitsud(1) General Commands Manual himitsud(1) NAME himitsud - himitsu(7) key ring daemon SYNOPSIS himitsud [-DR] DESCRIPTION The himitsud command runs the Himitsu key ring daemon. It creates a socket at $XDG_RUNTIME_DIR/himitsu which accepts commands using the himitsu-ipc(5) protocol. Users will generally use hiq(1) or other clients to interact with it. The user must have initialized a key store with himitsu-store(1) before running the daemon. For a general introduction to Himitsu, see himitsu(7). OPTIONS The following options are recognized by himitsud: -C <path> Path to configuration file to use (see himitsu.ini(5)). -D Daemonize (fork) the himitsud process after startup. -R fd Notify readiness by writing READY=1n into fd and then closing. SEE ALSO himitsu(7), himitsu-store(1), hiq(1), himitsu.ini(5), himitsu-ipc(5), him- itsu-prompter(5) AUTHORS Maintained by Drew DeVault <sir@cmpwn.com>, who is assisted by other con- tributors. Up-to-date source code can be found at https://git.sr.ht/~sircm- pwn/himitsu, and bugs/patches can be submitted by email to ~sircmpwn/him- itsu-devel@lists.sr.ht. 2026-08-27 himitsud(1)
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