1.\" @(#)newkey.8 1.3 91/03/11 TIRPC 1.0; from 1.12 90/02/03 SMI; 2.Dd October 12, 1987 3.Dt NEWKEY 8 4.Os 5.Sh NAME 6.Nm newkey 7.Nd create a new key in the publickey database 8.Sh SYNOPSIS 9.Nm 10.Fl h Ar hostname 11.Nm 12.Fl u Ar username 13.Sh DEPRECATION NOTICE 14.Nm 15is deprecated and is not available as of 16.Fx 15.0. 17.Sh DESCRIPTION 18The 19.Nm 20utility is normally run by the network administrator on the 21Network Interface Service 22.Pq NIS 23master machine in order to establish public keys for 24users and super-users on the network. 25These keys are needed for using secure 26RPC 27or secure 28NFS . 29.Pp 30The 31.Nm 32utility will prompt for the login password of the given username and then 33create a new public/secret key pair in 34.Pa /etc/publickey 35encrypted with the login password of the given user. 36.Pp 37Use of this program is 38not required: users may create their own keys using 39.Xr chkey 1 . 40.Sh OPTIONS 41.Bl -tag -width indent 42.It Fl h Ar hostname 43Create a new public key for the super-user at the given hostname. 44Prompts for the root password of the given hostname. 45.It Fl u Ar username 46Create a new public key for the given username. 47Prompts for the 48NIS 49password of the given username. 50.El 51.Sh SEE ALSO 52.Xr chkey 1 , 53.Xr keylogin 1 , 54.Xr publickey 5 , 55.Xr keyserv 8 56.Sh NOTES 57The Network Information Service 58.Pq NIS 59was formerly known as Sun Yellow Pages 60.Pq YP . 61The functionality of the two remains the same; 62only the name has changed. 63