PUBLICKEY(4-SysV)   RISC/os Reference Manual    PUBLICKEY(4-SysV)



NAME
     publickey - public key database

SYNOPSIS
     /etc/publickey

DESCRIPTION
     /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 Yellow Pages master machine, where it is
     converted into the YP database publickey.byname.

SEE ALSO
     chkey(1), publickey(3R), newkey(1M), ypupdated(1M)

ORIGIN
     Sun Microsystems, NFS 4.0






























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