securityd(1) BSD General Commands Manual securityd(1)

NAME
     sseeccuurriittyydd - Security context daemon for Authorization and cryptographic
     operations

SYNOPSIS
     sseeccuurriittyydd

DESCRIPTION
     sseeccuurriittyydd maintains security contexts and arbitrates cryptographic opera-
     tions and Security Authorizations. Access to keychain items is routed
     through sseeccuurriittyydd to enforce access controls and to keep private keys out
     of user process address space.  Authorization calls also communicate with
     sseeccuurriittyydd to enforce rules contained in the /etc/authorization database.
     All user interaction with sseeccuurriittyydd is mediated through the SSeeccuurriittyy
     AAggeenntt..

     This command is not intended to be invoked directly.

HISTORY     sseeccuurriittyydd was first introduced in Mac OS X version 10.0 (Cheetah) as the
     "Security Server" and was renamed in 10.4 (Tiger).

AUTHORS     Perry The Cynic

Darwin                         December 21, 2019                        Darwin