publickey.4 (2010 09)

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NAME
publickey - public key database
SYNOPSIS
/etc/publickey
DESCRIPTION
/etc/publickey
is a local public key database that is used for secure RPC. The
/etc/publickey
file can be used in conjunction with or instead of other publickey databases, including the NIS publickey
map, or user/host entries in the LDAP directory. Each entry in the database consists of a network
user name (which may refer to either 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 a password (also in hex notation).
The
/etc/publickey
file contains a default entry for nobody.
AUTHOR
publickey was developed by Sun Microsystems, Inc.
SEE ALSO
chkey(1), newkey(1M), getpublickey(3N), nsswitch.conf(4).
HP-UX 11i Version 3: September 2010 − 1 − Hewlett-Packard Company 1