hpux man page for getsecretkey

Query: getsecretkey

OS: hpux

Section: 3n

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getpublickey(3N)														  getpublickey(3N)

NAME
getpublickey(), getsecretkey(), publickey - retrieve public or secret key
SYNOPSIS
DESCRIPTION
and get public and secret keys for netname. The key may come from one of the following sources: the file (see publickey(4)), the NIS map or entries in the LDAP directory. The sources and their lookup order are specified in the file (see nsswitch.conf(4)). has an extra argument, passwd, which is used to decrypt the encrypted secret key stored in the database.
MULTITHREAD USAGE
Thread Safe: Yes Cancel Safe: Yes Fork Safe: No Async-cancel Safe: No Async-signal Safe: No These functions can be called safely in a multithreaded environment. They may be cancellation points in that they call functions that are cancel points. In a multithreaded environment, these functions are not safe to be called by a child process after and before These functions should not be called by a multithreaded application that supports asynchronous cancellation or asynchronous signals.
RETURN VALUE
Both routines return if they are successful in finding the key, (zero) otherwise. The keys are returned as NULL-terminated, hexadecimal strings. If the password supplied to fails to decrypt the secret key, the routine will return but the secretkey[0] will be set to NULL.
WARNINGS
HP-UX 11i Version 2 is the last HP-UX release on which NIS+ is supported. LDAP is the recommended replacement for NIS+. HP fully supports the industry standard naming services based on LDAP.
SEE ALSO
secure_rpc(3N), nsswitch.conf(4), publickey(4). getpublickey(3N)
Related Man Pages
getpublickey(3nsl) - opensolaris
getsecretkey(3n) - hpux
publickey(3nsl) - sunos
getpublickey(3nsl) - debian
publickey(3nsl) - x11r4
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