hpux man page for publickey

publickey(4)						     Kernel Interfaces Manual						      publickey(4)

NAME
       publickey - public key database

SYNOPSIS
DESCRIPTION
       is  a  local public key database that is used for secure RPC.  The file can be used in conjunction with or instead of other publickey data-
       bases, including the NIS publickey map, or entries in the LDAP directory.  Each entry in the database  consists	of  a  network	user  name
       (which  may refer to either a user or a hostname), followed by the user's public key (in hex notation), a colon, and then the user's secret
       key encrypted with a password (also in hex notation).

       The file contains a default entry for

AUTHOR
       was developed by Sun Microsystems, Inc.

SEE ALSO
       chkey(1), newkey(1M), getpublickey(3N), nsswitch.conf(4).

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