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NAME

keyenvoy — talk to keyserver

SYNOPSIS

keyenvoy

Remarks

The Network Information Service (NIS) was formerly known as Yellow Pages (yp). Although the name has changed, the functionality of the service remains the same.

DESCRIPTION

keyenvoy is a setuid root process that is used by some RPC programs to intermediate between a user process and the keyserv process, keyserv(1M), which will not talk to anything but a root process.

This program cannot be run interactively.

AUTHOR

keyenvoy was developed by Sun Microsystems, Inc.

SEE ALSO

keyserv(1M).