NAME

keylogin — decrypt and store secret key

SYNOPSIS

DEPRECATION NOTICE

keylogin is deprecated and is not available as of FreeBSD 15.0.

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

chkey(1), keylogout(1), login(1), publickey(5), keyserv(8), newkey(8)

HISTORY

The keylogin utility was removed from FreeBSD 15.0.