PUBLICKEY(3) BSD Library Functions Manual PUBLICKEY(3)NAME
publickey, getpublickey, getsecretkey — get public or secret key
LIBRARY
library “librpcsvc”
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. 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, 0 otherwise. The
keys are returned as NULL-terminated, hexadecimal strings. If the pass‐
word supplied to getsecretkey() fails to decrypt the secret key, the rou‐
tine will return 1 but the secretkey argument will be a NULL string (“”).
SEE ALSOpublickey(5)
"Remote Procedure Call Programming Guide", 4.4BSD Programmer's
Supplementary Documents (PSD).
BSD November 14, 2009 BSD