NFS Services Administrator's Guide

Configuring and Administering NIS
Configuring and Administering Secure RPC (if NIS+ is not used)
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To Tell Users How to Use Secure RPC
Tell the users who require secure RPC authorization to follow these
guidelines:
• If you allow users to create their own secure RPC keys with the
chkey command, they should enter their login passwords at the
Password prompt.
• If you use the newkey -u command to add users to the publickey
database, users should issue the /usr/bin/keylogin command
using the password you assigned. Then, they should issue the
/usr/bin/yppasswd command to change their login passwords. The
yppasswd command will automatically reencrypt their secure RPC
keys with their new passwords.
• When users log into a host without supplying a password (for
example, when they use rlogin to log into a host that has their local
host configured in /etc/hosts.equiv), they should issue the
/usr/bin/keylogin command after logging in, to register the secure
RPC password with the /usr/sbin/keyserv daemon.
For more information, see the following man pages: publickey(4),
newkey(1M), chkey(1), keylogin(1), yppasswd(1), rlogin(1).