keylogin — Decrypt and Store Secret Key with keyserv
Synopsis
/usr/bin/keylogin [-r]
Description
The keylogin command is part of the set of Secure RPC commands. Before you can use keylogin, a system administrator must use the newkey(1M), nisaddcred(1M), or nisclient(1M) commands to generate a public and secret key. Each user has a unique public key and secret key. The key can be found in the /etc/publickey file (see publickey(4)) or the NIS map publickey.byname or the NIS+ table cred.org_dir in the user's home domain. The sources and their lookup order are specified in the /etc/nsswitch.conf file (see nsswitch.conf(4)).
The keylogin command prompts for a password and uses it to decrypt the user's secret key. Once decrypted, the secret key ...
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