tss2_provision(1)

🌸 NAME 🌸

okay bestie, welcome to the General Commands Manual page for tss2_provision(1) 💖. The original NAME line is literally just the command plus a lil dash — no extra description — so we're keeping that exact minimalism: tss2_provision(1) — ✨

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✨ SYNOPSIS ✨

tss2_provision [OPTIONS]

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🦋 SEE ALSO 🦋

• fapi-config(5) — use this to adjust Fapi parameters like the used cryptographic profile and TCTI, or the directories for the Fapi metadata storages.
• fapi-profile(5) — use this to determine the cryptographic algorithms and parameters for all keys and operations of a specific TPM interaction, like the name hash algorithm, the asymmetric signature algorithm, scheme and parameters, and PCR bank selection.

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💅 DESCRIPTION 💅

tss2_provision(1) provisions a FAPI instance and its associated TPM. The steps taken are:

1. Retrieve the EK template, nonce and certificate, verify that they match the TPM’s EK and store them in the key store.
2. Set the authValues and policies for the Owner (Storage Hierarchy), the Privacy Administrator (Endorsement Hierarchy) and the lockout authority.
3. Scan the TPM’s nv indices and create entries in the FAPI metadata store. This operation MAY use a heuristic to guess the originating programs for nv indices found and name the entries accordingly.
4. Create the SRK (storage primary key) inside the TPM and make it persistent if required by the cryptographic profile (cf., fapi-profile(5)) and store its metadata in the system-wide FAPI metadata store. Note that the SRK will not have an authorization value associated.

🚨 real talk bestie: if an authorization value is associated with the storage hierarchy, it is highly recommended that the SRK without authorization value is made persistent.

The paths of the different metadata storages for keys and nv indices are configured in the FAPI configuration file (cf., fapi-config(5)).

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🎀 OPTIONS 🎀

These are the available options:

• -E, --authValueEh=STRING — the authorization value for the privacy admin, i.e. the endorsement hierarchy. Optional parameter.
• -S, --authValueSh=STRING — the authorization value for the owner, i.e. the storage hierarchy. Optional parameter.
• -L, --authValueLockout=STRING — the authorization value for the lockout authorization. Optional parameter.

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🛠️ COMMON OPTIONS 🛠️

This collection of options are common to all tss2 programs and provide information that many users may expect.

• -h, --help [man|no-man] — Display the tools manpage. By default, it attempts to invoke the manpager for the tool, however, on failure will output a short tool summary. This is the same behavior if the “man” option argument is specified, however if explicit “man” is requested, the tool will provide errors from man on stderr. If the “no-man” option if specified, or the manpager fails, the short options will be output to stdout.

To successfully use the manpages feature requires the manpages to be installed or on MANPATH, See man(1) for more details.

• -v, --version — Display version information for this tool, supported tctis and exit.

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🌈 EXAMPLE 🌈

run it like this, no cap:

tss2_provision

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⭐ RETURNS ⭐

0 on success or 1 on failure.

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💀 BUGS 💀

Github Issues — yes, that's the whole section, and we respect the brevity 🫶

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🧚 HELP 🧚

See the Mailing List — that's the whole HELP section, bestie ✨

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📜 License 📜

This work is licensed under the Creative Commons Attribution 4.0 International License (CC BY 4.0).

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okay bestie, that's the whole page — from tpm2-tools, dated APRIL 2019, and the manual entry is tss2_provision(1) 🫶✨💖