summaryrefslogtreecommitdiffstats
path: root/cpukit/librpc/src/rpc/publickey.5
diff options
context:
space:
mode:
Diffstat (limited to '')
-rw-r--r--cpukit/librpc/src/rpc/publickey.538
1 files changed, 38 insertions, 0 deletions
diff --git a/cpukit/librpc/src/rpc/publickey.5 b/cpukit/librpc/src/rpc/publickey.5
index e69de29bb2..9f7a325488 100644
--- a/cpukit/librpc/src/rpc/publickey.5
+++ b/cpukit/librpc/src/rpc/publickey.5
@@ -0,0 +1,38 @@
+.\" $FreeBSD: src/lib/libc/rpc/publickey.5,v 1.5 2000/03/02 09:13:46 sheldonh Exp $
+.\" @(#)publickey.5 2.1 88/08/07 4.0 RPCSRC; from 1.6 88/02/29 SMI;
+.TH PUBLICKEY 5 "19 October 1987"
+.SH NAME
+publickey \- public key database
+.SH SYNOPSIS
+.B /etc/publickey
+.SH DESCRIPTION
+.LP
+.B /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).
+.LP
+This file is altered either by the user through the
+.BR chkey (1)
+command or by the system administrator through the
+.BR newkey (8)
+command.
+The file
+.B /etc/publickey
+should only contain data on the NIS master machine, where it
+is converted into the
+.SM NIS
+database
+.BR publickey.byname .
+.SH SEE ALSO
+.BR chkey (1),
+.BR publickey (3R),
+.BR newkey (8),
+.BR ypupdated (8C)