1.\" @(#)newkey.8 1.3 91/03/11 TIRPC 1.0; from 1.12 90/02/03 SMI; 2.\" $FreeBSD: src/usr.bin/newkey/newkey.8,v 1.4.2.2 2001/07/22 12:40:28 dd Exp $ 3.Dd October 12, 1987 4.Dt NEWKEY 8 5.Os 6.Sh NAME 7.Nm newkey 8.Nd create a new key in the publickey database 9.Sh SYNOPSIS 10.Nm 11.Fl h Ar hostname 12.Nm 13.Fl u Ar username 14.Sh DESCRIPTION 15.Nm Newkey 16is normally run by the network administrator on the 17Network Interface Service 18(\s-1NIS\s0) 19master machine in order to establish public keys for 20users and super-users on the network. 21These keys are needed for using secure 22RPC 23or secure 24NFS\s0. 25.Pp 26.Nm Newkey 27will prompt for the login password of the given username and then 28create a new public/secret key pair in 29.Pa /etc/publickey 30encrypted with the login password of the given user. 31.Pp 32Use of this program is 33not required: users may create their own keys using 34.Xr chkey 1 . 35.Sh OPTIONS 36.Bl -tag -width indent 37.It Fl h Ar hostname 38Create a new public key for the super-user at the given hostname. 39Prompts for the root password of the given hostname. 40.It Fl u Ar username 41Create a new public key for the given username. 42Prompts for the 43NIS 44password of the given username. 45.El 46.Sh SEE ALSO 47.Xr chkey 1 , 48.Xr keylogin 1 , 49.Xr publickey 5 , 50.Xr keyserv 8 51.Sh NOTES 52The Network Information Service 53(\s-1NIS\s0) 54was formerly known as Sun Yellow Pages 55(\s-1YP\s0). 56The functionality of the two remains the same; 57only the name has changed. 58