Collections may be accessed via well known aliases. For example an alias called default tells applications which is the default collection to store secrets.

The aliased collections will be available at a well-known DBus object path.

If an application needs to create a collection with a given alias, this can be done in a race free fashion by specifying the alias parameter of the CreateCollection() method on the service interface. If a collection with that alias already exists, then it will be returned instead of creating a new one.

For applications like password managers it can be useful to allow the user to configure which collection is associated with which well known alias. To alias or unalias a collection use the SetAlias() method on the service interface. Use the ReadAlias() method on the service interface to discover which collection is associated with a given alias.