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