NEWKEY(8)

📦 version 14.5, in freebsd 14.5

✨ NAME ✨

okay so this is newkey(8) from the System Manager's Manual 💖 — and it's literally about creating a new key in the publickey database. no cap, that's the whole vibe.

🎀 SYNOPSIS 🎀

newkey -h hostname
newkey -u username

💀 DEPRECATION NOTICE 💀

big yikes bestie: newkey is deprecated and is not available as of FreeBSD 15.0. like… she's gone gone. 😭💔

🦋 DESCRIPTION 🦋

okay so the newkey utility is normally run by the network administrator on the Network Interface Service (NIS) master machine, and the whole point is to establish public keys for users and super-users on the network. these keys are needed for using secure RPC or secure NFS. slay. 🔥

the newkey utility will prompt for the login password of the given username, and then create a new public/secret key pair in /etc/publickey encrypted with the login password of the given user. it's giving key-management main character energy. 🔑✨

and no, you don't have to use this program: users may create their own keys using chkey(1). periodt. 💅

💅 OPTIONS 💅

  • -h hostname — create a new public key for the super-user at the given hostname. it prompts for the root password of the given hostname. 👑
  • -u username — create a new public key for the given username. it prompts for the NIS password of the given username. 🫶

🌈 SEE ALSO 🌈

📜 HISTORY 📜

the newkey utility was removed from FreeBSD 15.0. rip to a real one 🕯️😭

🍓 NOTES 🍓

the Network Information Service (NIS) was formerly known as Sun Yellow Pages (YP). the functionality of the two remains the same; only the name has changed. iykyk bestie, same vibe, different label 💫

k bye ily, this page is brought to you by Debian, dated October 12, 1987, and yes it's the NEWKEY(8) manual-page era. iconic. 🎀✨

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