SBKEYSYNC(1)
π NAME π
okay so bestie, this is SBKEYSYNC β aka sbkeysync(1), straight out of User Commands: the UEFI secure boot key synchronization tool. she's here, she's iconic, and she's all about updating EFI key databases from the filesystem. π
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β¨ SYNOPSIS β¨
sbkeysync [options]
π¦ DESCRIPTION π¦
Update EFI key databases from the filesystem. that's the mission, no cap: filesystem β EFI key databases. literally the main character arc. πΈ
π OPTIONS π
--efivars-path <dir>β path to efivars mountpoint (or regular directory for testing). lowkey point her at the right spot. π--verboseβ print verbose progress information. she's chatty and we love that for her. π£οΈ--dry-runβ don't update firmware key databases. it's giving "look but don't touch" vibe check. π--pkβ Set PK. short, sweet, iconic. π--keystore <dir>β read keys from<dir>/{db,dbx,KEK}/*(can be specified multiple times, first dir takes precedence). bestie, precedence matters. π--no-default-keystoresβ don't read keys from the default keystore dirs. bye default keystores, not today. π
mwah π this little page is sbkeysync 0.9.5, dated July 2025, and it's literally living in SBKEYSYNC(1). periodt. π
π¦ where this page comes from
- alpine 3.23: sbsigntool-doc 0.9.5-r3 Β· GPL-3.0-or-later WITH cryptsetup-OpenSSL-exception
- alpine 3.24: sbsigntool-doc 0.9.5-r3 Β· GPL-3.0-or-later WITH cryptsetup-OpenSSL-exception
- fedora 43: sbsigntools 0.9.5-11.fc43 Β· GPL-3.0-or-later AND LicenseRef-Fedora-Public-Domain AND LGPL-2.1-or-later AND LGPL-3.0-only AND MIT
- π girlified by deepseek-ai/DeepSeek-V4.1-Flash-1017 on : a language model's rewrite of the original, under its terms