tpm_setoperatorauth(8)

💖 tpm_setoperatorauth 💖

okay so bestie, welcome to the tpm_setoperatorauth page from the System Manager's Manual — section 8, admin girlies only, iykyk ✨

🌸 NAME 🌸

tpm_setoperatorauth — sets the operator authorization value in the TPM

🦋 SYNOPSIS 🦋

tpm_setoperatorauth [OPTION]

✨ DESCRIPTION ✨

so like, tpm_setoperatorauth lets you set the operator authorization value in the TPM, and it does that through the TPM_SetOperatorAuth API 🫶. the way this works is it prompts you for the new password and then prompts you again to confirm it, because it wants to be sure bestie. no typos allowed 💅

and then there's --well-known, which is the iconic shortcut: it tells the API to use the default TSS_WELL_KNOWN_SECRET — literally a 20-bytes array of zeros — as the operator authorization information, instead of prompting you for one at all. zero drama, zero typing. periodt 🌈

🎀 the flags, bestie 🎀

• -h, --help — shows you the command usage info. your little map 🗺️
• -v, --version — shows you the command version info. main character identification moment 👑
• -l, --log [none|error|info|debug] — sets the logging level. pick your vibe: none, error, info, or debug 🍓
• -u, --unicode — uses TSS UNICODE encoding for passwords, so it plays nice with applications that use TSS popup boxes 💜
• -z, --well-known — uses the default TSS_WELL_KNOWN_SECRET 20-bytes array of zeros as the operator password. no cap, it's just zeros ✨
• -p, --op_password_unicode — uses TSS UNICODE encoding for the new operator password, so it plays nice with applications using TSS popup boxes 🎀

🔥 SEE ALSO 🔥

• tpm_version(1)
• tpm_takeownership(8)
• tcsd(8)

😭 REPORTING BUGS 😭

found a bug? don't gatekeep it, bestie — report bugs to <trousers-users@lists.sourceforge.net> 🫶

lowkey a whole TPM glow-up fr fr 💖

and that's the page!! this one came from TPM Management, dated 2007-10-22 — yes she's vintage, and yes she still ate 💅✨🦋🌸