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NAME
     newkey - create a new key in the publickey database

SYNOPSIS
     newkey -h hostname

     newkey -u username

DESCRIPTION
     The newkey command is normally run by the  network  adminis-
     trator  on  the machine that contains the publickey(4) data-
     base, to establish public  keys  for  users  and  privileged
     users  on  the  network.   These  keys are needed when using
     secure RPC or secure NFS.

     newkey will prompt for a password for the given username  or
     hostname  and  then  create a new public/secret key pair for
     the user or host in /etc/publickey, encrypted with the given
     password.

     The following options are available:

     -h hostname   Create a new public/secret key  pair  for  the
                   privileged   user   at   the  given  hostname.
                   Prompts for a password for the given hostname.

     -u username   Create a new public/secret key  pair  for  the
                   given  username.   Prompts  for a password for
                   the given username.

SEE ALSO
     chkey(1),  keylogin(1),  keylogout(1),   keyserv(1M),   pub-
     lickey(4)






















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