tpm_restrictpubek(8)

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okay bestie, welcome to a page from the System Manager's Manual — yeah it's tpm_restrictpubek(8), a whole TPM Management situation, and honestly? it's giving gatekeeper energy. literally. let's go 🎀

NAME

tpm_restrictpubek — bestie, this one restricts the ability to display the public portion of the Endorsement Key to the owner. that's it. that's the job. 👑

SYNOPSIS

tpm_restrictpubek [OPTION]

DESCRIPTION

so tpm_restrictpubek reports the status of who can display the public portion of the Endorsement Key. 🌸 that's the default behavior, no cap — and you can also get it on purpose with the --status option.

this operation stays in effect until the owner is cleared, and it prompts for the owner password. 🔐

with the --restrict option, the ability to display the public portion of the Endorsement Key is restricted to the owner — via the TPM_DisablePubekRead API, iykyk. the command prompts for the owner password to complete the operation. 💖

⚠️ heads up queen: --status and --restrict are mutually exclusive, and the last one on the command line is the one that actually gets carried out. so like, pick a lane. 🙈

• -h, --help — display command usage info. the classic. ✨
• -v, --version — display command version info. 💫
• -l, --log [none|error|info|debug] — set the logging level. pick your vibe from none, error, info, or debug. 🌈
• -u, --unicode — use TSS UNICODE encoding for passwords, so it plays nice with applications using TSS popup boxes. 🫶
• -s, --status — display the status of who can see the public portion of the Endorsement Key. 👀
• -r, --restrict — restrict seeing the public portion of the Endorsement Key to the owner. main character only, periodt. 💅
• -z, --well-known — authenticate using 20 bytes of zeros as the owner password (that's the default TSS Well Known Secret) instead of prompting for an owner password. iconic shortcut fr fr. 🎀

SEE ALSO

tpm_version(1), tpm_takeownership(8), tpm_getpubek(8), tcsd(8) 🦋

REPORTING BUGS

found a bug? not the vibe. report it to <trousers-users@lists.sourceforge.net> 💌

and that's the whole page, bestie — brought to you by TPM Management, dated 2005-05-05, in all its tpm_restrictpubek(8) glory. slay, stay secure, and go restrict some public portions 💖✨🔐