tbtadm(1)

✨ tbtadm — Thunderbolt(tm) management tool ✨

okay bestie, so this is tbtadm(1), a whole General Commands Manual page, and it's literally your little bestie for talking to the Thunderbolt(tm) kernel module 💖

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🌈 SYNOPSIS 🌈

tbtadm

tbtadm devices

tbtadm peers

tbtadm topology

tbtadm approve [--once] <route-string>

tbtadm approve-all [--once]

tbtadm acl

tbtadm add <route-string>

tbtadm remove <uuid | route-string>

tbtadm remove-all

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💅 DESCRIPTION 💅

tbtadm is the convenient way to interact with the Thunderbolt kernel module — approving the connection of Thunderbolt devices, handling the ACL for auto-connecting devices, and more 🦋

And the cutest part? If you run it with no argument at all, it just prints out all the available commands for you. main character energy, honestly 👑

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🎀 OPTIONS 🎀

• devices — prints a list of all the currently connected Thunderbolt devices, in exactly this format:

Route-string    Vendor    Device name    Authorized?    In ACL?

• peers — prints a list of all the currently connected hosts, in exactly this format:

Route-string    Vendor    Device name

• topology — prints all the currently connected Thunderbolt devices as a tree, starting with the controller itself, so it resembles the actual device connection topology 🌸 (it's giving family tree but make it hardware)
• approve [--once] <route-string> — if the Thunderbolt device you picked isn't authorized, this approves it, and (if --once wasn't specified) adds it to the ACL 💖
• approve-all [--once] — approves all currently connected Thunderbolt devices that aren't authorized yet, and (if --once wasn't specified) adds them to the ACL. the group-chat mass-approval, if you will ✨
• acl — prints the ACL content, in exactly this format:

UUID    Vendor    Device name    Currently connected?

• add <route-string> — adds a device to the ACL. The argument picks the device to be added by its route-string 🫶

ngl bestie, this one doesn't work in SL2 (secure; key-based), because adding to the ACL must be done together with the device authorization — that means with approve or approve-all without the --once flag. no cap 😭

• remove <uuid | route-string> — removes an ACL entry. The argument picks the device to be removed by its UUID, or (if it's currently connected) by its route-string 💅
• remove-all — clears the ACL, removing all the entries. it's giving spring cleaning 🧹✨

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🦋 SEE ALSO 🦋

no SEE ALSO refs on this page, bestie — it's a short and sweet one 💜

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and that's the whole page, periodt 👑

cute sign-off time 🎀 — this little masterpiece was written by Yehezkel Bernat, and the footer was serving 2mtime(2m/2d/2Y) with tbtadm(1) at the bottom. obsessed 💖