nisupdkeys — Update the Public Keys in an NIS+ Directory Object

Synopsis

/usr/lib/nis/nisupdkeys [-a | -C][-H host][directory]
/usr/lib/nis/nisupdkeys -s [-a | -C] -H host
					

Description

Occasionally, you may find that, even though you have created the proper credentials and assigned the proper access rights, some principal requests still get denied. Existence of stale objects with old versions of a server's public key can cause this problem. You can usually correct the problem by running nisupdkeys on the domain you are trying to access. You can use the nisupdkeys command to perform the following actions.

  • Update the key of one particular server.

  • Update the keys of all the servers that support an NIS+ directory object.

  • Remove a server's public key ...

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