PUBLICKEY(3) BSD Library Functions Manual PUBLICKEY(3)NAME
publickey, getpublickey, getsecretkey — get public or secret key
LIBRARY
library “librpcsvc”
SYNOPSIS
#include <rpc/rpc.h>
#include <rpc/key_prot.h>
int
getpublickey(const char netname[MAXNETNAMELEN+1],
char publickey[HEXKEYBYTES+1]);
int
getsecretkey(char netname[MAXNETNAMELEN+1],
char secretkey[HEXKEYBYTES+1], char *passwd);
DESCRIPTION
These routines are used to get public and secret keys from the YP data‐
base. The getsecretkey() function has an extra argument, passwd, which
is used to decrypt the encrypted secret key stored in the database. Both
routines return 1 if they are successful in finding the key, 0 otherwise.
The keys are returned as NULL-terminated, hexadecimal strings. If the
password supplied to getsecretkey() fails to decrypt the secret key, the
routine will return 1 but the secretkey argument will be a NULL string
(“”).
SEE ALSOpublickey(5)
RPC Programmer's Manual in /usr/share/doc/psd/23.rpc.
BSD October 6, 1987 BSD