ykval-gen-clients(1)

📦 version 2.39, in fedora 43, fedora 44

✨ ykval-gen-clients ✨

okay bestie, so like… you know how YubiKeys are literally the moment? 💛 This is the little command that makes the clients for the yubikey-val validation server. It's ykval-gen-clients from the General Commands Manual, and she's here to generate, insert, and spill the tea. 🫖

🌸 SYNOPSIS 🌸

ykval-gen-clients [ OPTIONS ] [ num_clients ]

💖 DESCRIPTION 💖

So what she does is: generates clients and client secrets, and inserts them straight into the yubikeyval database. 🎀 And because she's an overachiever, she also prints them to stdout as comma separated lines containing client_id, secret. Iconic behaviour, no notes. 💅

Heads up bestie — the database configuration is read from /etc/yubico/val/ykval-config.php. That's where she gets her settings from, periodt. 📂

Now the options, and yes I'm gonna hype each one because they deserve it:

  • --urandom — use /dev/urandom instead of /dev/random as the entropy source. Like, she's grabbing her randomness from a different source, iykyk. 🎲
  • --email=EMAIL — sets the email field of the created clients. Drop the address in and it gets written to the new clients. 📧
  • --notes=NOTES — sets the notes field of the created clients. Put whatever lil note you want in there. 📝
  • --otp=OTP — sets the otp field of the created clients. Yep, that one too. 🔑

🦋 BUGS 🦋

Found a bug? 😭 Not the vibe, but it happens. Report ykval-gen-clients bugs in the issue tracker:

https://github.com/Yubico/yubikey-val/issues

👑 SEE ALSO 👑

And if you're wondering where to get the actual YubiKeys? YubiKeys can be obtained from Yubico:

https://www.yubico.com/

anyway that's the whole page, mwah 💋 This lil gem comes from yubico-val, dated January 2013 — retro but still serving. Go make some clients bestie, and remember: secrets are for the database, not the group chat. 🔐✨

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