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Solaris Naming Administration Guide

Updating Public Keys Arguments and Examples

The nisupdkeys command is located in /usr/lib/nis. The nisupdkeys command uses the following arguments (for a complete description of the nisupdkeys command and a full list of all its arguments, see the nisupdkeys man page):

Table 8-4 nisupdkeys Arguments

Argument 

Effect 

(no argument) 

Updates all keys of servers for current domain 

directoryname

Updates the keys of the directory object for the named directory. 

-H servername

Updates the keys of the named server for the current domain directory object. A fully qualified host name can be used to update the keys of servers in other domains. 

-s -H servername

Updates the keys of all the directory objects served by the named server. 

-C

Clears the keys. 

Table 8-5gives an example of updating a public key:

Table 8-5 Updating a Public Key: Command Examples

Tasks 

Commands 

Update all keys of all servers of the current domain (doc.com).

rootmaster# /usr/lib/nis/nisupdkeys

Fetch Public key for server rootmaster.doc.com. 

netname='unix.rootmaster@doc.com'

Updating rootmaster.doc.com.'s public key.  

Public key: public-key

Update keys of all servers supporting the sales.doc.com domain directory object.

salesmaster# nisupdkeys sales.doc.com(

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Update keys for a server named master7 in all the directories that store them.

rootmaster# nisupdkeys -H master7

Clear the keys stored by the sales.doc.com directory object.

rootmaster# nisupdkeys -C sales.doc.com

Clear the keys for the current domain directory object for the server named master7.

rootmaster# nisupdkeys -C -H master7