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
getpublickey() and getsecretkey() get public and secret keys for netname. The key may come from one of the following sources:
o the /etc/publickey file. See publickey(4).
o the NIS map ``publickey.byname'' or the NIS+ table ``cred.org_dir''. The sources and their lookup order are specified in the /etc/nss-
witch.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 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 18 Dec 2001 getpublickey(3NSL)
