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publickey(4)							  publickey(4)

NAME
       publickey - public key database

SYNOPSIS
DESCRIPTION
       is  a  local public key database that is used for secure RPC.  The file
       can be used in conjunction with or instead  of  other  publickey	 data‐
       bases,  including  the NIS publickey map, or entries in the LDAP direc‐
       tory.  Each entry in the database  consists  of	a  network  user  name
       (which  may  refer  to  either  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 a password (also in hex notation).

       The file contains a default entry for

AUTHOR
       was developed by Sun Microsystems, Inc.

SEE ALSO
       chkey(1), newkey(1M), getpublickey(3N), nsswitch.conf(4).

								  publickey(4)

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