NAME

newkey − create a new key in the publickey database

SYNOPSIS

newkey [ −h hostname ] [ −u username ]

DESCRIPTION

newkey is normally run by the network administrator on the YP 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 Yellow Pages 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(4), keyserv(1M)
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 

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