FIPS-FINISH-INSTAL(8)

✨ FIPS-FINISH-INSTAL(8) ✨

okay so bestie, you found the fips-finish-install page — it's a section 8 manual page, and honestly? it's a little sidekick, not the main character. let's get into it 💅

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🌸 NAME 🌸

fips-finish-install — bestie, this one's whole job is to complete the installation of FIPS modules. that's it, that's the vibe 🎀

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🦋 SYNOPSIS 🦋

fips-finish-install [--complete|--undo]

like, pick one of the two, okay? it's giving "choose your fighter" 🔥

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💖 DESCRIPTION 💖

so fips-finish-install(8) is the little helper that fips-mode-setup(8) calls to complete the installation of the system FIPS modules. it's a backstage crew member, not the headliner 🌟

here's the tea though: this tool is not supposed to be called directly by the system administrator. like, it is possible to do so — nobody's gonna stop you — but that's not the intended situation, iykyk 🙈

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👑 OPTIONS 👑

the only recognized and mandatory option is... and yes, it's mandatory, no cap:

• --complete — the command completes the FIPS module installation and calls dracut -f to regenerate the initramfs. slay, that's the whole point 💫
• --undo — the command undoes some of the FIPS module installation steps. but hold on bestie, read this twice: module installation cannot be undone without reformatting of and overwriting, at least once, the platform's hard drive or other permanent storage media. 😭 this option is not meant to be used in production, is not supported, and is implemented for testing purposes only. so like... don't. seriously. 🫶

⚠️ warning time, and i'm saying it with my whole chest: --undo is testing-only, unsupported, not for production, and the only way to actually fully undo module installation is to reformat and overwrite the platform's hard drive or other permanent storage media at least once. that's a big yikes, protect your data 🥺

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🔍 SEE ALSO 🔍

• fips-mode-setup(8) — the actual main character that calls this one 🌈

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🖊️ AUTHOR 🖊️

written by Tomáš Mráz. thank you for your service, king 👑✨

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so that's the whole page, no crumbs left 💜 this icon of a manual page is fips-finish-install, and it's dated 02/07/2025 — go forth and don't call it directly unless you really know what you're doing, mwah 🍓💋