opensolaris man page for getpublickey

getpublickey(3NSL)				       Networking Services Library Functions					getpublickey(3NSL)

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:

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

	   o	  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-termi-
       nated,  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 TYPE	     |	    ATTRIBUTE VALUE	   |
       +-----------------------------+-----------------------------+
       |MT-Level		     |Safe			   |
       +-----------------------------+-----------------------------+

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.

SunOS 5.11							    10 Nov 2005 						getpublickey(3NSL)