NAME

udpublickey − updater for NIS public key database

SYNOPSIS

cd /var/yp ; udpublickey publickeymap command

DESCRIPTION

The NIS utility udpublickey is not intended to be invoked directly by a user but rather to be run by ypupdated(1M) based on the target publickey.byname in the makefile /var/up/updaters.  This is done indirectly in response to a ypmake publickey request or by a newkey(1) or chkey(1) request. 

ypupdated updates the NIS public key database publickeymap by reading from standard input and interpreting secure RPC protocol messages generated by ypupdate(3N) as specified in updaters(4).  It validates the user making the request, makes the requested changes to the publickeymap file and then invokes a shell to run the command specified in the command argument.  The command is expected to invoke make(1) with an argument that is the target publickey.  This will use /var/yp/Makefile to build the NIS public key database. 

udpublickey exits with status zero if successful, with status YPERR_KEY if changing or deleting a key that is not in the map, with status YPERR_ACCESS if the user is nobody or updating another’s key, or with status YPERR_YPERR if it cannot find or update the publickeymap file or detects a protocol error. 

FILES

/var/yp/updaters

/var/yp/Makefile

SEE ALSO

chkey(1), keyserv(1M), make(1), newkey(1), ypmake(1M), ypupdated(1M), ypupdate(3N), updaters(4).