08-01-2002
it's the 2nd one. i need to retrieve it later. i really didn't want to get a prompt from the user, since it'd be better to prompt the password and lose the encryption. what do you think of getting the key from something in the system, like the current dir or the output of uname -s. would it still be secure? what i'm doing here is to store some irc nickname passwords in a file and when we login the perl script auto identifies the user.
any ideas for secure automation?
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keyserv
KEYSERV(8) BSD System Manager's Manual KEYSERV(8)
NAME
keyserv -- server for storing private encryption keys
SYNOPSIS
keyserv [-d] [-D] [-n] [-p path] [-v]
DESCRIPTION
The keyserv utility is a daemon that is used for storing the private encryption keys of each user logged into the system. These encryption
keys are used for accessing secure network services such as secure NFS.
Normally, root's key is read from the file /etc/.rootkey when the daemon is started. This is useful during power-fail reboots when no one is
around to type a password.
If a client with no secret key calls keyserv, then the key of user nobody is used instead as the default key.
The following options are available:
-d Disable the use of default keys for nobody.
-D Run in debugging mode and log all requests to keyserv.
-n Root's secret key is not read from /etc/.rootkey. Instead, keyserv prompts the user for the password to decrypt root's key stored in
the /etc/publickey database and then stores the decrypted key in /etc/.rootkey for future use. This option is useful if the
/etc/.rootkey file ever gets out of date or corrupted.
-p path
Specify where to search for libdes.so.3. Default is /usr/lib.
-v Display status of DES support (enabled/disabled).
FILES
/etc/.rootkey
/usr/lib/libdes.so.3
SEE ALSO
keylogin(1), keylogout(1), publickey(5)
BSD
September 14, 1992 BSD