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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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newkey — Create a New Diffie-Hellman Key Pair in the publickey Database

Synopsis

/usr/sbin/newkey -h hostname [-s nisplus | nis | files]
/usr/sbin/newkey -u username [-s nisplus | nis | files]

Description

Use the newkey command to establish new public keys for users and machines on the network. These keys are needed when secure RPC or secure NFS service is used.

For NIS, superuser should run newkey on the master NIS server for that domain. For NIS+, superuser should run newkey on a machine that has permission to update the cred.org_dir table of the new user/host domain. You cannot use newkey to create keys other than 192-bit Diffie-Hellman. To add new keys for NIS+, use nisaddcred(1M).

newkey prompts for a password for the given username or ...

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