publickey(4)                      NFS 5.4.2                     publickey(4)


NAME
       publickey - public key database

SYNOPSIS
       /etc/publickey

DESCRIPTION
       NOTE:  Secure RPC using DES Authentication is an additional feature
       that must be purchased separately from the DG/UX (Trademark) ONC
       (Trademark)/NFS® package.  You must have this feature to use the
       database described in this manual page.

       /etc/publickey is the public key database used for secure networking.
       Each entry in the database consists of a network user name (which may
       either refer to a user or a hostname), followed by the user's public
       key (in hex notation), a colon, and then the user's secret key
       encrypted with its login password (also in hex notation).

       This file is altered either by the user through the chkey(1) command
       or by the system administrator through the newkey(1M) command.  The
       file /etc/publickey should only contain data on the Network
       Information Service master machine, where it is converted into the
       NIS database publickey.byname.

SEE ALSO
       chkey(1), newkey(1M), ypupdated(1M), descrypt(3R), publickey(3R),
       rpc(3N).






























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