chkey — Change User’s Secure RPC Key Pair

Synopsis

						
							
								    /usr/bin/chkey [-p] [-s nisplus | nis | files] [-m <mechanism>] 

Description

Use chkey to change a user's secure RPC public key and secret key pair. chkey prompts for the old secure RPC password and verifies that it is correct by decrypting the secret key. If the user has not already keylogged in, chkey registers the secret key with the local keyserv(1M) daemon. If the secure RPC password does not match the login password, chkey prompts for the login password. chkey uses the login password to encrypt the user's secret Diffie-Hellman (192-bit) cryptographic key.

chkey ensures that the login ...

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