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