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PUBLICKEY(5)             DragonFly File Formats Manual            PUBLICKEY(5)

NAME
     publickey -- public key database

SYNOPSIS
     /etc/publickey

DESCRIPTION
     /etc/publickey is the public key database used for secure networking.
     Each entry in the database consists of a network user name (which may
     either refer to a user or a hostname), followed by the user's public key
     (in hex notation), a colon, and then the user's secret key encrypted with
     its login password (also in hex notation).

     This file is altered either by the user through the chkey(1) command or
     by the system administrator through the newkey(8) command.  The file
     /etc/publickey should only contain data on the NIS master machine, where
     it is converted into the NIS database publickey.byname.

SEE ALSO
     chkey(1), publickey(3), newkey(8), ypupdated(8)

DragonFly 3.5                  October 19, 1987                  DragonFly 3.5