getpublickey(3N)getpublickey(3N)NAMEgetpublickey(), getsecretkey(), publickey - retrieve public or secret
key
SYNOPSISDESCRIPTION
and get public and secret keys for netname. The key may come from one
of the following sources: the file (see publickey(4)), the NIS map or
entries in the LDAP directory. The sources and their lookup order are
specified in the file (see nsswitch.conf(4)).
has an extra argument, passwd, which is used to decrypt the encrypted
secret key stored in the database.
MULTITHREAD USAGE
Thread Safe: Yes
Cancel Safe: Yes
Fork Safe: No
Async-cancel Safe: No
Async-signal Safe: No
These functions can be called safely in a multithreaded environment.
They may be cancellation points in that they call functions that are
cancel points.
In a multithreaded environment, these functions are not safe to be
called by a child process after and before These functions should not
be called by a multithreaded application that supports asynchronous
cancellation or asynchronous signals.
RETURN VALUE
Both routines return if they are successful in finding the key, (zero)
otherwise. The keys are returned as NULL-terminated, hexadecimal
strings. If the password supplied to fails to decrypt the secret key,
the routine will return but the secretkey[0] will be set to NULL.
WARNINGS
HP-UX 11i Version 2 is the last HP-UX release on which NIS+ is sup‐
ported. LDAP is the recommended replacement for NIS+. HP fully sup‐
ports the industry standard naming services based on LDAP.
SEE ALSOsecure_rpc(3N), nsswitch.conf(4), publickey(4).
getpublickey(3N)