publickey

 

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 Networking Services Library Functions          getpublickey(3NSL)
 
 
 


NAME
      getpublickey, getsecretkey, publickey - retrieve  public  or
      secret key
 


SYNOPSIS
      #include <rpc/rpc.h>
      #include <rpc/key_prot.h>
 
      int  getpublickey(const  char  netname[MAXNETNAMELEN],  char
      publickey[HEXKEYBYTES+1]);
 
      int  getsecretkey(const  char  netname[MAXNETNAMELEN],  char
      secretkey[HEXKEYBYTES+1], const char *passwd);
 


DESCRIPTION
      getpublickey() and getsecretkey() get public and secret keys
      for  netname.  The  key  may  come from one of the following
      sources: the /etc/publickey file (see publickey(4))  or  the
      NIS    map    ``publickey.byname''   or   the   NIS+   table
      ``cred.org_dir''. The sources and  their  lookup  order  are
      specified    in    the    /etc/nsswitch.conf    file    (see
      nsswitch.conf(4)).
 
      getsecretkey()  has  an  extra  argument,  passwd,  used  to
      decrypt the encrypted secret key stored in the database.
 
 RETURN VALUES
      Both routines return 1 if they are successful in finding the
      key,  0 otherwise. The keys are returned as NULL-terminated,
      hexadecimal strings. If the password supplied to  getsecret-
      key()  fails  to  decrypt  the  secret key, the routine will
      return 1 but the secretkey [0] will be set to NULL.
 


ATTRIBUTES
      See attributes(5) for descriptions of the  following  attri-
      butes:
 
      ____________________________________________________________
     |       ATTRIBUTE TYPE        |       ATTRIBUTE VALUE       |
     |_____________________________|_____________________________|
     | MT-Level                    | Safe                        |
     |_____________________________|_____________________________|
 
 


SEE ALSO
      secure_rpc(3NSL),  nsswitch.conf(4),  publickey(4),   attri-
      butes(5)
 
 WARNINGS
      If getpublickey() gets the public key from any source  other
      than  NIS+,  all  authenticated NIS+ operations may fail. To
      ensure that this does not happen, edit the  nsswitch.conf(4)
 
 
 
 SunOS 5.8           Last change: 30 Dec 1996                    1
 
 
 
 
 
 
 Networking Services Library Functions          getpublickey(3NSL)
 
 
 
      file to make sure that the public key is obtained from NIS+.
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 SunOS 5.8           Last change: 30 Dec 1996                    2
 
 
 

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