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.\" $DragonFly: src/usr.bin/newkey/newkey.8,v 1.2 2003/06/17 04:29:30 dillon Exp $ 4.Dd October 12, 1987 5.Dt NEWKEY 8 6.Os 7.Sh NAME 8.Nm newkey 9.Nd create a new key in the publickey database 10.Sh SYNOPSIS 11.Nm 12.Fl h Ar hostname 13.Nm 14.Fl u Ar username 15.Sh DESCRIPTION 16.Nm Newkey 17is normally run by the network administrator on the 18Network Interface Service 19(\s-1NIS\s0) 20master machine in order to establish public keys for 21users and super-users on the network. 22These keys are needed for using secure 23RPC 24or secure 25NFS\s0. 26.Pp 27.Nm Newkey 28will prompt for the login password of the given username and then 29create a new public/secret key pair in 30.Pa /etc/publickey 31encrypted with the login password of the given user. 32.Pp 33Use of this program is 34not required: users may create their own keys using 35.Xr chkey 1 . 36.Sh OPTIONS 37.Bl -tag -width indent 38.It Fl h Ar hostname 39Create a new public key for the super-user at the given hostname. 40Prompts for the root password of the given hostname. 41.It Fl u Ar username 42Create a new public key for the given username. 43Prompts for the 44NIS 45password of the given username. 46.El 47.Sh SEE ALSO 48.Xr chkey 1 , 49.Xr keylogin 1 , 50.Xr publickey 5 , 51.Xr keyserv 8 52.Sh NOTES 53The Network Information Service 54(\s-1NIS\s0) 55was formerly known as Sun Yellow Pages 56(\s-1YP\s0). 57The functionality of the two remains the same; 58only the name has changed. 59