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author | wpaul <wpaul@FreeBSD.org> | 1997-05-28 15:52:07 +0000 |
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committer | wpaul <wpaul@FreeBSD.org> | 1997-05-28 15:52:07 +0000 |
commit | a63f49971349bf79244e49cbabb01077b0556633 (patch) | |
tree | 93a2ca272d55e014ed3cede3f45b587abd04ff73 /usr.bin/newkey/newkey.8 | |
parent | 93c9d6f0d2e00568c4a86fdce41d2843a35dcb29 (diff) | |
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diff --git a/usr.bin/newkey/newkey.8 b/usr.bin/newkey/newkey.8 new file mode 100644 index 0000000..8029751 --- /dev/null +++ b/usr.bin/newkey/newkey.8 @@ -0,0 +1,57 @@ +.\" @(#)newkey.8 1.3 91/03/11 TIRPC 1.0; from 1.12 90/02/03 SMI; +.TH NEWKEY 8 "12 October 1987" +.SH NAME +newkey \- create a new key in the publickey database +.SH SYNOPSIS +.B "newkey \-h" +.I hostname +.br +.B "newkey \-u" +.I username +.SH DESCRIPTION +.IX "newkey command" "" "\fLnewkey\fP command" +.LP +.B newkey +is normally run by the network administrator on the +Network Interface Service +(\s-1NIS\s0) +master machine in order to establish public keys for +users and super-users on the network. +These keys are needed for using secure +.SM RPC +or secure +.SM NFS\s0. +.LP +.B newkey +will prompt for the login password of the given username and then +create a new public/secret key pair in +.B /etc/publickey +encrypted with the login password of the given user. +.LP +Use of this program is +not required: users may create their own keys using +.BR chkey (1). +.SH OPTIONS +.TP 12 +.BI \-h " hostname" +Create a new public key for the super-user at the given hostname. +Prompts for the root password of the given hostname. +.TP +.BI \-u " username" +Create a new public key for the given username. +Prompts for the +.SM NIS +password of the given username. +.SH "SEE ALSO" +.BR chkey (1), +.BR keylogin (1), +.BR publickey (5), +.BR keyserv (8C) +.SH NOTES +.LP +The Network Information Service +(\s-1NIS\s0) +was formerly known as Sun Yellow Pages +(\s-1YP\s0). +The functionality of the two remains the same; +only the name has changed. |