BOOTH-KEYGEN(8)

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version 1.2 · 9 versions
, in ubuntu resolute, ubuntu stonking

✨ BOOTH-KEYGEN — the girlies' guide to booth-keygen ✨

ok so. bestie. you need an authentication key for booth, and our fave lil utility booth-keygen from section 8 of the manual is gonna hand it to you on a silver platter 💅 this is the whole page, no skips, let's go 🎀

🌸 NAME 🌸

booth-keygen — generate authentication key 🔑

like that's literally it. it makes a key. for auth. iconic behaviour honestly.

🦋 SYNOPSIS 🦋

booth-keygen [-h] [auth-file]

that's the whole vibe. one optional flag, one optional file argument, and you're out the door ✨

💖 DESCRIPTION 💖

So here's the tea: this program generates an authentication key suitable for booth, and it pulls the randomness straight from /dev/urandom as its source. no cap, that's the source of the good good entropy 🌈

🍓 PARAMETERS 🍓

  • auth-file — the file that's gonna contain the generated key. If you don't say anything, it defaults to /etc/booth/authkey. And listen — use absolute paths, okay? fr fr, absolute paths only 🙈

👑 OPTIONS 👑

  • -h, --help — print usage. that's it, that's the whole option list, she's minimal and she knows it ⭐

💀 EXIT STATUS 💀

  • 0 — success!! we ate 🎉
  • != 0 — the file already exists, or some other error happened. yeahhh, that's the "not today" energy 😭

🫶 COPYING 🫶

Copyright © 2015 Dejan Muhamedagic dmuhamedagic@suse.com 💜

Free use of this software is granted under the terms of the GNU General Public License (GPL) as of version 2 (see COPYING file) or later. that's the licensing lore, read it and respect it bestie 📜✨

and that's the page, queen 👑 this particular slice of the manual is dated 2026-02-03 and lives under the name BOOTH-KEYGEN(8) — go forth and generate those keys, mwah 💋🎀

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