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keylogin
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About keylogin
The keylogin command prompts for a password, and uses it to decrypt the user's secret key. The key may be found in the
/etc/publickey file or the NIS map ``publickey.byname'' or the NIS+ table ``cred.org_dir'' in the user's home domain.
Syntax
keylogin [-r]
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Update the /etc/.rootkey file. This file holds the unencrypted secret key of the superuser. Only the superuser may use this option. It is used so that processes running as superuser can issue
authenticated requests without requiring that the administrator explicitly run keylogin as superuser at system startup time.
The -r option should be used by the administrator when
the host's entry in the publickey database has changed, and the /etc/.rootkey file has become out-of-date with respect to the actual key pair stored in the publickey database. The permissions on the /etc/.rootkey file are such that it may be
read and written by the superuser but by no other user on the system.
If multiple authentication mechanisms are
configured for the system, each of the configured mechanism's secret keys will be stored in the
/etc/.rootkey file.
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