NAME

newkey − create a new key in the publickey database

SYNOPSIS

/usr/sbin/yp/newkey −h <hostname>
/usr/sbin/yp/newkey −u <username>

DESCRIPTION

newkey is normally run by the network administrator on the NIS master machine in order to establish public keys for users and super-users on the network. These keys are needed for using secure RPC or secure NFS. 

newkey will prompt for the login password of the given username and then create a new public/secret key pair in /etc/publickey encrypted with the login password of the given user. 

Use of this program is not required: users may create their own keys using chkey (1). 

OPTIONS

−u username Create a new public key for the given username. Prompts for the network Information Service password of the given username. 

−h hostname Create a new public key for the super-user at the given hostname. Prompts for the root password of the given hostname. 

SEE ALSO

keylogin(1), chkey(1), publickey(5), keyserv(8)
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 

7th Edition  —  Revision 1.4 of 20/09/90