NAME

chkey − create or change an encryption key

SYNOPSIS

chkey

Remarks

The Network Information Service (NIS) was formerly known as Yellow Pages (yp).  Although the name has changed, the functionality of the service remains the same. 

DESCRIPTION

chkey prompts the user for a login password and uses this password to either create a new encryption key in the publickey(4) database or change the user’s existing key.

To create new encryption keys, chkey requires an active entry for nobody in the /etc/publickey database. If the nobody entry is commented out, the chkey function is limited to changes in existing encryption keys. 

EXAMPLES

chkey

Generating new key for unix.node@domain. 

Password: xxxxx

Sending key change request to hpindhsb... 

Done. 

WARNINGS

For chkey to update the master NIS server’s /etc/publickey file, the master server must be running both the rpc.ypupdated process and the keyserv process, keyserv(1M), and the NIS client must be running the keyserv process. 

AUTHOR

chkey was developed by Sun Microsystems, Inc. 

FILES

/etc/publickey

SEE ALSO

keylogin(1), keylogout(1), keyserv(1M), newkey(1M), publickey(4). 

Hewlett-Packard Company  —  HP-UX Release 10.20:  July 1996