man/man3nsl/getpublickey.3nsl

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 getpublickey 3NSL "10 Nov 2005" "SunOS 5.11" "Networking Services Library Functions"
 NAME
getpublickey, getsecretkey, publickey - retrieve public or secret key
 SYNOPSIS

#include <rpc/rpc.h>
#include <rpc/key_prot.h>

int getpublickey(const char netname[MAXNETNAMELEN],
 char publickey[HEXKEYBYTES+1]);


int getsecretkey(const char netname[MAXNETNAMELEN],
 char secretkey[HEXKEYBYTES+1],const char *passwd);


 DESCRIPTION

The getpublickey() and getsecretkey() functions get public and
secret keys for netname. The key may come from one of the following
sources:


/etc/publickey file. See publickey(4).


NIS map ``publickey.byname'' or the NIS+ table ``cred.org_dir''.
The sources and their lookup order are specified in the
/etc/nsswitch.conf file. See nsswitch.conf(4).


getsecretkey() has an extra argument, passwd, which is used to
decrypt the encrypted secret key stored in the database.
 RETURN VALUES

Both routines return 1 if they are successful in finding the key.
Otherwise, the routines return 0. The keys are returned as
null-terminated, hexadecimal strings. If the password supplied to
getsecretkey() fails to decrypt the secret key, the routine will return 1
but the secretkey [0] will be set to NULL.
 ATTRIBUTES

See attributes(5) for descriptions of the following attributes:


ATTRIBUTE TYPEATTRIBUTE VALUE
MT-LevelSafe


 SEE ALSO

secure_rpc(3NSL), nsswitch.conf(4), publickey(4),
attributes(5)
 WARNINGS

If getpublickey() gets the public key from any source other than NIS+,
all authenticated NIS+ operations may fail. To ensure that this does not
happen, edit the nsswitch.conf(4) file to make sure that the public key
is obtained from NIS+.
 "NOTES"

NIS+ might not be supported in future releases of the Solaris operating system.
Tools to aid the migration from NIS+ to LDAP are available in the current
Solaris release. For more information, visit
http://www.sun.com/directory/nisplus/transition.html.