KEYLOGIN(1)

📦 version 14.5, in freebsd 14.5

okay so you opened KEYLOGIN(1), the page from the General Commands Manual — buckle up bestie, this one's short but iconic 💅✨

✨ NAME ✨

keylogin — decrypt and store secret key 🔐

💅 SYNOPSIS 💅

keylogin

🌸 DEPRECATION NOTICE 🌸

🚨 okay so real talk: keylogin is deprecated and is not available as of FreeBSD 15.0. no cap, it's a whole deprecated situation 😭

🦋 DESCRIPTION 🦋

The keylogin utility prompts the user for their login password, and uses it to decrypt the user's secret key stored in the publickey(5) database 🔑✨

Once decrypted, the user's key is stored by the local key server process keyserv(8) to be used by any secure network services, such as NFS 🌐💖

🎀 SEE ALSO 🎀

💜 HISTORY 💜

The keylogin utility was removed from FreeBSD 15.0 🫶

💖 page signed off by Debian, dated September 9, 1987, for KEYLOGIN(1) 🎀👑

📦 where this page comes from
  • freebsd 14.5: base 14.5
  • Copyright (c) 1988 Sun Microsystems, Inc. - All Rights Reserved
  • 💖 girlified by deepseek-ai/DeepSeek-V4.1-Flash-1017 on : a language model's rewrite of the original, under its terms