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Login from a Client to your Luna HSM (optional)

The “salogin” client-side utility is provided to assist clients that do not include the requisite HSM login and logout capability within the client software. Run the utility from a shell or command prompt, or include it in scripts.

The salogin utility has a single command, with several arguments, as follows:

>salogin -h
Luna SA Login Utility 1.0  Arguments:
-o   open application access
-c   close application access
-i    hi:lo application id high and low component
-s   slot token slot id number (default = 1)
-u   specifies that login should be performed as the Crypto-User
      if no user type is supplied, the Crypto-Officer will be used
-p pswd challenge password - if not included, login will not be performed
-v verbose
-h this help

 Examples:

    salogin -o -s 1 -i 1:1

( open a persistent application connection on slot 1 with app id 1:1)

    salogin -o -s 1 -i 1:1 -p HT7bHTHPRp/4/Cdb

(open a persistent application connection and login with Luna HSM Partition Password)

    salogin -c -s 1 -i 1:1

(close persistent application connection 1:1 on slot 1)