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Solaris™ 8 System Administrator's Reference
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Solaris™ 8 System Administrator's Reference

by Janice Winsor
September 2000
Beginner content levelBeginner
1312 pages
33h 47m
English
Pearson
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amiserv — AMI Keyserver

Synopsis

/usr/lib/security/amiserv

Description

The Authentication Management Infrastructure (AMI) is new in the Solaris 8 release. AMI is a public-key-based authentication/privacy system that includes a set of security-related APIs and commands. You can use these APIs to tailor a public key infrastructure (PKI) suitable for your site's authentication and privacy requirements.

The AMI keyserver, amiserv, is a per-host daemon that performs cryptographic operations with private keys. The daemon is initiated at system startup by the /etc/rc2.d/S95amiserv run control script. The private key operations performed by the keyserver ...

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