keylogin(1) User Commands keylogin(1)NAMEkeylogin - decrypt and store secret key with keyserv
SYNOPSIS
/usr/bin/keylogin [-r]
DESCRIPTION
The keylogin command prompts for a password, and uses it to decrypt the
user's secret key. The key can be found in the /etc/publickey file (see
publickey(4)) or the NIS map ``publickey.byname'' in the user's home
domain. The sources and their lookup order are specified in the
/etc/nsswitch.conf file. See nsswitch.conf(4). Once decrypted, the
user's secret key is stored by the local key server process, key‐
serv(1M). This stored key is used when issuing requests to any secure
RPC services, such as NFS. The program keylogout(1) can be used to
delete the key stored by keyserv .
keylogin fails if it cannot get the caller's key, or the password given
is incorrect. For a new user or host, a new key can be added using
newkey(1M).
If multiple authentication mechanisms are configured for the system,
each of the configured mechanism's secret key is decrypted and stored
by keyserv(1M).
OPTIONS
The following options are supported:
-r Update the /etc/.rootkey file. This file holds the unencrypted
secret key of the superuser. Only the superuser can use this
option. It is used so that processes running as superuser can
issue authenticated requests without requiring that the adminis‐
trator explicitly run keylogin as superuser at system startup
time. See keyserv(1M). The -r option should be used by the admin‐
istrator when the host's entry in the publickey database has
changed, and the /etc/.rootkey file has become out-of-date with
respect to the actual key pair stored in the publickey database.
The permissions on the /etc/.rootkey file are such that it can be
read and written by the superuser but by no other user on the
system.
If multiple authentication mechanisms are configured for the sys‐
tem, each of the configured mechanism's secret keys is stored in
the /etc/.rootkey file.
FILES
/etc/.rootkey superuser's secret key
ATTRIBUTES
See attributes(5) for descriptions of the following attributes:
┌─────────────────────────────┬─────────────────────────────┐
│ ATTRIBUTE TYPE │ ATTRIBUTE VALUE │
├─────────────────────────────┼─────────────────────────────┤
│Availability │SUNWcs │
└─────────────────────────────┴─────────────────────────────┘
SEE ALSOchkey(1), keylogout(1), login(1), keyserv(1M), newkey(1M), nss‐
witch.conf(4), publickey(4), attributes(5)SunOS 5.11 10 Dec 2009 keylogin(1)