NAME

createsignerkey − create signer key on authentication server

SYNOPSIS

­lib/createsignerkey ­name [ ­expiry [ ­bitsize [ ­keyfile ] ] ]

DESCRIPTION

­Createsignerkey creates public and private keys that are used by a server acting as ‘signer’ to generate certificates for users.  ­Name appears as signer in each certificate.  The ­expiry date has the form ddmmyyyy, is converted to seconds since the epoch (see daytime(2)) and stored in the keyfile. The key will be ­bitsize long (default: 512 bits) with a minimum of 32 bits and a maximum of 4096 bits.  ­Keyfile is the file in which the server stores its keys; the default is /keydb/signerkey, and many security programs such as logind(8) expect to find keys there.

FILES

­/keydb/signerkey

SOURCE

­/appl/lib/createsignerkey.b

SEE ALSO

keyring-gensk(2), signer(8)

Plan 9  —  June 07, 2000