SunScreen SKIP User's Guide, Release 1.1

Activating Your Passphrase

To activate your passphrase, use the following procedure:

  1. Type


    skiplocal passwd
    
  2. You will be prompted as follows:


    You are now assigning a global passphrase which will be used to
    encrypt all of your SKIP secret values. Please choose a passphrase
    which you will remember, but will be hard for someone else to guess
    New global passphrase:	<type a new passphrase>
    again: <type the new passphrase>
  3. To reinitialize your key manager, type


    skipd_restart