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NAME

createsignerkey - create signer key on authentication server

SYNOPSIS

auth/createsignerkey [ -a alg ] [ -f keyfile ] [ -e expiry ] [ -b bitsize ] name

DESCRIPTION

Createsignerkey creates public and private keys that are used by a server acting as `signer' to generate certificates for users. Name appears as signer in each certificate. The expiry date has the form ddmmyyyy, is converted to seconds since the epoch (see daytime(2)) and stored in the keyfile; by default the server's certificate never expires.

The key will be bitsize long (default: 512 bits) with a minimum of 32 bits and a maximum of 4096 bits. Keyfile is the file in which the server stores its keys; the default is /keydb/signerkey, and many authentication programs such as logind(8) by default expect to find their server key there. Creating a signer's default key afresh typically invalidates all certificates previously issued by that signer, because their signatures will not verify. The mode of the keyfile should be set to be readable only by the user running those programs.

The -a option specifies the signature algorithm. Currently alg can be either elgamal or rsa. RSA keys are now used by default.

FILES

/keydb/signerkey

SOURCE

/appl/cmd/auth/createsignerkey.b

SEE ALSO

security-auth(2), keyring-gensk(2), logind(8), signer(8)

CREATESIGNERKEY(8 ) Rev:  Thu Feb 15 14:43:55 GMT 2007