HP-UX Reference (11i v3 07/02) - 4 File Formats (vol 8)

publickey(4) publickey(4)

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.