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 user-keyring \- per-user keyring
 .SH DESCRIPTION
 The user keyring is a keyring used to anchor keys on behalf of a user.
-Each UID the kernel deals with has its own user keyring.
-This keyring is associated with the record that the kernel maintains
-for the UID and, once created, is retained as long as that record persists.
-It is shared amongst all processes of that UID.
+Each UID the kernel deals with has its own user keyring that
+is shared by all processes with that UID.
 
-The user keyring is created on demand when a thread requests it.
-Normally, this happens when
+The user keyring is associated with the record that the kernel maintains
+for the UID.
+It comes into existence upon the first attempt to access either the
+user keyring, the
+.BR user-session-keyring (7),
+or the
+.BR session-keyring (7).
+The keyring remains pinned in existence so long as there are processes
+running with that real UID or files opened by those processes remain open.
+(The keyring can also be pinned indefinitely by linking it
+into another keyring.)
+
+Typically, the user keyring is created by
 .BR pam_keyinit (8)
-is invoked when a user logs in.
+when a user logs in.
 
 The user keyring is not searched by default by
 .BR request_key (2).