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 RPC administrator on the machine that contains the publickey(4) database, 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), publickey(4)