skeyaudit(1)

skeyaudit1

Warn users if their s/key will soon expire

Usage

skeyaudit [-ai] [-l limit]

Overview

skeyaudit searches through the files in /etc/skey for users whose S/Key sequence number is less than limit, and mails them a reminder to run skeyinit(1) soon.

The options are as follows:

-a

Check all keys in /etc/skey. This option is only available to the superuser and is useful to run regularly via cron(8).

-i

Interactive mode. Don't send mail, just print to the standard output.

-l limit

The limit used to determine whether or not a user should be notified. The default is to notify if there are fewer than 12 keys left.

Files

/etc/skey

directory containing user entries for S/Key

Releases

61 releases since OpenBSD 2.1; the text changed 11 times.

  1. 2.1
  2. 2.2–2.3
  3. 2.4–2.5
  4. 2.6
  5. 2.7
  6. 2.8
  7. 2.9–3.1
  8. 3.2
  9. 3.3
  10. 3.4–3.7
  11. 3.8–4.1
  12. 4.2–8.0

-a since OpenBSD 2.2; -i since OpenBSD 2.2; -l since OpenBSD 2.2.

From man 8.0-current-20261101 in OpenBSD 8.0-current (2026-11-01). Parsed by carta from the page's mdoc source.