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publickey(3)

NAME

     publickey, getpublickey, getsecretkey -- get public or secret key

LIBRARY

     RPC Service Library (librpcsvc, -lrpcsvc)

SYNOPSIS

     #include <rpc/rpc.h>
     #include <rpc/key_prot.h>

     int
     getpublickey(char netname[MAXNETNAMELEN+1],
	 char publickey[HEXKEYBYTES+1]);

     int
     getsecretkey(char netname[MAXNETNAMELEN+1],
	 char secretkey[HEXKEYBYTES+1], char *passwd);

DESCRIPTION

     These routines are used to get public and secret keys from the YP data-
     base.  The getsecretkey() function has an extra argument, passwd, which
     is used to decrypt the encrypted secret key stored in the database.  Both
     routines return 1 if they are successful in finding the key, 0 otherwise.
     The keys are returned as NULL-terminated, hexadecimal strings.  If the
     password supplied to getsecretkey() fails to decrypt the secret key, the
     routine will return 1 but the secretkey argument will be a NULL string
     (``'').

SEE ALSO

     publickey(5)

     RPC Programmer's Manual in /usr/share/doc/psd/23.rpc.

FreeBSD 5.4			October 6, 1987 		   FreeBSD 5.4

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