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Network Information Services (NIS and NIS+) Guide
Use the following commands to administer passwords, credentials, and keys
(see the appropriate command descriptions for more information):
- chkey
- Changes a principal's secure RPC key pair. Unless you want to
re-encrypt your current private key with a new password, use the
passwd command instead. The chkey command does
not affect the principal's entry either in the passwd table or
/etc/passwd file.
- keylogin
- Decrypts and stores a principal's secret key with the
keyserv.
- keylogout
- Deletes stored secret key from keyserv.
- keyserv
- Enables the server for storing private encryption keys.
- newkey
- Creates a new key pair in public-key database.
- nisaddcred
- Creates credentials for NIS+ principals.
- nisupdkeys
- Updates public keys in directory objects.
- passwd
- Changes and administers principal's password.
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