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KEYINFO(1) FreeBSD General Commands Manual KEYINFO(1) NAME keyinfo -- display current S/Key sequence number and seed SYNOPSIS keyinfo [username] DESCRIPTION keyinfo takes an optional user name and displays the user's current sequence number and seed found in the S/Key database /etc/skeykeys. The command can be useful when generating a list of passwords for use on a field trip, by combining with the command key(1) in the form: key -n <number of passwords> `keyinfo` | lpr The optional username argument specifies the S/Key user for whom to dis- play the information. The default is to display S/Key information on the user who invokes the command. Only the superuser can ask for another user's key information. EXAMPLES Usage example: $ keyinfo This would produce the following output: 98 ws91340 DIAGNOSTICS The keyinfo utility exits with status 0 if a key for the requested user has been found, else with status 1. SEE ALSO key(1), keyinit(1) AUTHORS Original command by Phil Karn, Neil M. Haller and John S. Walden. Rewritten in Perl by Jorg Wunsch so that it could be made setuid, with the S/Key keys file read-protected from the users. Rewritten in C by Warner Losh. FreeBSD 11.1 April 26, 1996 FreeBSD 11.1
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