diff --git a/man/systemd-creds.xml b/man/systemd-creds.xml
index 8ed96ca140..73999f425a 100644
--- a/man/systemd-creds.xml
+++ b/man/systemd-creds.xml
@@ -77,8 +77,8 @@
setup
- Generates a host encryption key for credentials, if none has been generated
- before. This ensures the /var/lib/systemd/credential.secret file is initialized
+ Generates a host encryption key for credentials, if one has not been generated
+ already. This ensures the /var/lib/systemd/credential.secret file is initialized
with a random secret key if it doesn't exist yet. This secret key is used when encrypting/decrypting
credentials with encrypt or decrypt, and is only accessible to
the root user. Note that there's typically no need to invoke this command explicitly as it is
@@ -87,7 +87,7 @@
- encryptinputoutput
+ encryptinput|-output|-Loads the specified (unencrypted plaintext) input credential file, encrypts it and
writes the (encrypted ciphertext) version to the specified output credential file. The resulting file
@@ -141,8 +141,8 @@
- decryptinput
- output
+ decryptinput|-
+ output|-Undoes the effect of the encrypt operation: loads the specified
(encrypted ciphertext) input credential file, decrypts it and writes the (decrypted plaintext)
@@ -152,11 +152,11 @@
credential name embedded in the encrypted file. If it does not match decryption fails. This is done
in order to ensure that encrypted credentials are not re-purposed without this being detected. The
credential name to compare with the embedded credential name may also be overridden with the
- switch. If only one path is specified (or the output path specified as
- -) it is taken as input path and the decrypted credential is written to standard
- output. If the input path is specified as - the encrypted credential is read from
- standard input. In this mode, the expected name embedded in the credential cannot be derived from the
- path and should be specified explicitly with .
+ switch. If the input path is specified as -, the
+ encrypted credential is read from standard input. If only one path is specified or the output path
+ specified as -, the decrypted credential is written to standard output. In this
+ mode, the expected name embedded in the credential cannot be derived from the path and should be
+ specified explicitly with .
Decrypting credentials requires access to the original TPM2 chip and/or credentials host key,
see above. Information about which keys are required is embedded in the encrypted credential data,