rotp(1)

💖 rotp — bestie's guide to one time passwords 💖

okay so real talk, <rainbow>rotp</rainbow> lives in section 1 of the General Commands Manual, and it's a Ruby library for generating and verifying one time passwords. yes, the whole vibe is "prove you're you" but make it cryptographic. 🎀

✨ NAME ✨

rotp — a Ruby library for generating and verifying one time passwords 🌸

🦋 SYNOPSIS 🦋

rotp [options]

💅 DESCRIPTION 💅

so basically, rotp is a Ruby library for generating and verifying one time passwords. it's giving versatile because it handles both HOTP and TOTP — counter girlies and clock girlies, we contain multitudes 💜 — and it also includes QR Code provisioning, so your users can just scan and go. iconic, no cap. ✨

👑 OPTIONS 👑

every flag, every detail, let's go:

• -s, --secret [SECRET] — the shared secret 🔐 that's the little handshake you and the server both know.
• -c, --counter [COUNTER] — the counter for counter-based hmac OTP. it goes up, the password changes, periodt. 🔢
• -t, --time — use time-based OTP according to RFC 6238 (this one is the default, so if you say nothing, this is what you get 🕰️).
• -m, --hmac — use counter-based OTP according to RFC 4226.
• -h, --help — show help 🫶 (the friendliest flag, honestly).

🌈 Examples 🌈

the receipts, bestie:

rotp --secret p4ssword                       # Generates a time-based
one-time password

rotp --hmac --secret p4ssword --counter 42   # Generates a counter-based
one-time password

see? first one just vibes with the clock (default time-based 🕰️), second one flips to --hmac and hands over --counter 42 so it's counting instead of clocking. chef's kiss. 💅

🔥 SEE ALSO 🔥

• /usr/share/doc/ruby-rotp/index.html — go read the docs, iykyk 📖

and that's the whole page, bestie!! 💖 this one was put together by the General Commands Manual crew, and this version is dated May 2015 🌸 — so yeah, it's a lil vintage, but the OTP game stays undefeated. go forth and verify. mwah. 💋✨