publickey(3R)                                       publickey(3R)



NAME
     publickey, getpublickey, getsecretkey - get public or secret
     key

SYNOPSIS
     #include <rpc/rpc.h>
     #include <rpc/keyprot.h>

     getpublickey(netname, publickey)
          char netname[MAXNETNAMELEN+1];
          char publickey[HEXKEYBYTES+1];

     getsecretkey(netname, secretkey, passwd)
          char netname[MAXNETNAMELEN+1];
          char secretkey[HEXKEYBYTES+1];
          char *passwd;

DESCRIPTION
     These routines are used to get public and secret keys from
     the YP database.  getsecretkey() has an extra argument,
     passwd, which is used to decrypt the encrypted secret key
     stored in the database.  Both routines return 1 if they are
     successful in finding the key, 0 otherwise.  The keys are
     returned as NULL-terminated, hexadecimal strings. If the
     password supplied to getsecretkey() fails to decrypt the
     secret key, the routine will return 1 but the secretkey
     argument will be a NULL string (``'').

SEE ALSO
     publickey(4)

























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