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user-session-keyring.7: Note some rationale for existence of user session keyring 

Signed-off-by: Michael Kerrisk <mtk.manpages@gmail.com>
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@ -72,6 +72,14 @@ is running as root\(emthat a
.BR session-keyring (7)
be set explicitly, for example by
.BR pam_keyinit (8).
.SH NOTES
The user session keyring was added to support situations where
a process doesn't have a session keyring,
perhaps because it was created via a pathway that didn't involve PAM
(e.g., perhaps it was a daemon started by
.BR inetd (8)).
In such a scenario, the user session keyring acts as a substitute for the
.BR session-keyring (7).
.SH SEE ALSO
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