chkey(1)                                                           User Commands                                                          chkey(1)

NAME

       chkey - change user's secure RPC key pair

SYNOPSIS

       chkey [-p] [-s nisplus | nis | files | ldap]  [-m <mechanism>]

DESCRIPTION

       chkey is used to change a user's secure RPC public key and secret key pair. chkey prompts for the old secure-rpc password and verifies that
       it is correct by decrypting the secret key. If the user has not already used keylogin(1) to decrypt and store  the  secret  key  with  key-
       serv(1M),  chkey registers the secret key with the local keyserv( 1M) daemon. If the secure-rpc password does not match the login password,
       chkey prompts for the login password. chkey uses the login password to encrypt the user's secret  Diffie-Hellman  (192  bit)  cryptographic
       key. chkey can also encrypt other Diffie-Hellman keys for authentication mechanisms configured using nisauthconf(1M).

       chkey ensures that the login password and the secure-rpc  password(s) are kept the same, thus enabling password shadowing. See shadow(4).

       The  key pair can be stored in the  /etc/publickey file (see publickey(4)), the NIS publickey map, or the NIS+ cred.org_dir table. If a new
       secret key is generated, it will be registered with the local keyserv(1M) daemon. However, only NIS+ can store  Diffie-Hellman  keys  other
       than 192-bits.

       Keys  for specific mechanisms can be changed or reencrypted using the -m option followed by the authentication mechanism name. Multiple  -m
       options can be used to change one or more keys. However, only mechanisms configured using nisauthconf(1M) can be changed with  chkey.

       If the source of the  publickey is not specified with the -s option,  chkey consults the  publickey entry in the name service  switch  con-
       figuration  file.   See  nsswitch.conf(4). If the  publickey entry specifies one and only one source, then chkey will change the key in the
       specified name service. However, if multiple name services are listed, chkey can not decide which source to  update  and  will  display  an
       error message. The user should specify the source explicitly with the -s option.

       Non root users are not allowed to change their key pair in the files database.

OPTIONS

       The following options are supported:

       -p                      Re-encrypt the existing secret key with the user's login password.

       -s nisplus              Update the  NIS+ database.

       -s nis                  Update the NIS database.

       -s files                Update the  files database.

       -s ldap                 Update the  LDAP database.

       -m <mechanism>          Changes or re-encrypt the secret key for the specified mechanism.

FILES

       /etc/nsswitch.conf

       /etc/publickey

ATTRIBUTES

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

       +-----------------------------+-----------------------------+
       |      ATTRIBUTE TYPE         |      ATTRIBUTE VALUE        |
       +-----------------------------+-----------------------------+
       |Availability                 |SUNWcsu                      |
       +-----------------------------+-----------------------------+

SEE ALSO

       keylogin(1),   keylogout(1),   keyserv(1M),   newkey(1M),   nisaddcred(1M),  nisauthconf(1M),  nsswitch.conf(4),  publickey(4),  shadow(4),
       attributes(5)

NOTES

       NIS+ might not be supported in future releases of the SolarisTM Operating Environment. Tools to aid the migration from  NIS+  to  LDAP  are
       available in the Solaris 9 operating environment. For more information, visit http://www.sun.com/directory/nisplus/transition.html.

SunOS 5.10                                                          24 Jan 2002                                                           chkey(1)