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<para>The service manager itself may receive system credentials that can be propagated to services
from a hosting container manager or VM hypervisor. See the <ulink
url="https://systemd.io/CONTAINER_INTERFACE">Container Interface</ulink> documentation for details
- about the former. For the latter, use the <command>qemu</command> <literal>fw_cfg</literal> node
+ about the former. For the latter, pass <ulink
+ url="https://www.dmtf.org/standards/smbios">DMI/SMBIOS</ulink> OEM string table entries (field type
+ 11) with a prefix of <literal>io.systemd.credential:</literal> or
+ <literal>io.systemd.credential.binary:</literal>. In both cases a key/value pair separated by
+ <literal>=</literal> is expected, in the latter case the right-hand side is Base64 decoded when
+ parsed (thus permitting binary data to be passed in). Example qemu switch: <literal>-smbios
+ type=11,value=io.systemd.credential:xx=yy</literal>, or <literal>-smbios
+ type=11,value=io.systemd.credential.binary:rick=TmV2ZXIgR29ubmEgR2l2ZSBZb3UgVXA=</literal>. Alternatively,
+ use the <command>qemu</command> <literal>fw_cfg</literal> node
<literal>opt/io.systemd.credentials/</literal>. Example qemu switch: <literal>-fw_cfg
name=opt/io.systemd.credentials/mycred,string=supersecret</literal>. They may also be specified on
the kernel command line using the <literal>systemd.set_credential=</literal> switch (see
- <citerefentry><refentrytitle>systemd</refentrytitle><manvolnum>1</manvolnum></citerefentry>)
- and from the UEFI firmware environment via
+ <citerefentry><refentrytitle>systemd</refentrytitle><manvolnum>1</manvolnum></citerefentry>) and from
+ the UEFI firmware environment via
<citerefentry><refentrytitle>systemd-stub</refentrytitle><manvolnum>7</manvolnum></citerefentry>.</para>
<para>If referencing an <constant>AF_UNIX</constant> stream socket to connect to, the connection will