GETPUBLICKEY(3NSL) Networking Services Library Functions GETPUBLICKEY(3NSL)
NAME
getpublickey, getsecretkey, publickey - retrieve public or secret key
SYNOPSIS
#include <rpc/rpc.h>
#include <rpc/key_prot.h>
int getpublickey(
const char netname[MAXNETNAMELEN],
char publickey[HEXKEYBYTES+1]);
int getsecretkey(
const char netname[MAXNETNAMELEN],
char secretkey[HEXKEYBYTES+1],
const char *passwd);
DESCRIPTION
The
getpublickey() and
getsecretkey() functions get public and secret
keys for
netname. The key may come from one of the following sources:
o
/etc/publickey file. See
publickey(5).
o
NIS map ``publickey.byname''. The sources and their lookup
order are specified in the
/etc/nsswitch.conf file. See
nsswitch.conf(5).
getsecretkey() has an extra argument,
passwd, which is used to decrypt
the encrypted secret key stored in the database.
RETURN VALUES
Both routines return
1 if they are successful in finding the key.
Otherwise, the routines return
0. 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 [0] will be set to
NULL.
ATTRIBUTES
See
attributes(7) for descriptions of the following attributes:
+---------------+-----------------+
|ATTRIBUTE TYPE | ATTRIBUTE VALUE |
+---------------+-----------------+
|MT-Level | Safe |
+---------------+-----------------+
SEE ALSO
secure_rpc(3NSL),
nsswitch.conf(5),
publickey(5),
attributes(7) February 25, 2017
GETPUBLICKEY(3NSL)