getpublickey, getsecretkey, publickey - retrieve public or secret key
#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);
The getpublickey() and getsecretkey() functions get public and
secret keys for netname. The key may come from one of the following
sources:
- 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.
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.
See attributes(7) for descriptions of the following attributes:
| ATTRIBUTE
TYPE |
ATTRIBUTE VALUE |
| MT-Level |
Safe |