tpm_takeownership(8)

💖 tpm_takeownership — from the System Manager's Manual, section 8 💖

okay bestie, grab a lil snack because we're about to hand your TPM its very own owner and honestly? it's giving ✨ responsibility ✨

🌸 NAME 🌸

tpm_takeownership — setup an owner on the TPM

🦋 SYNOPSIS 🦋

tpm_takeownership [OPTION]

👑 DESCRIPTION 👑

So tpm_takeownership sets up an owner on your system's TPM (it does this via the TPM_TakeOwnership API, iykyk). For this to work, your TPM has to be enabled, and the whole thing can be restricted by tpm_setownable — so no, you can't just bulldoze your way in there 💅

Now here's the vibe check on passwords: if you run this command without either of the -well-known options, it's gonna prompt you for the owner and SRK passwords, plus confirmations of both. If you do use one of the -well-known options, then a secret of all zeros gets set for the requested password instead. periodt.

And after that second confirmation? be patient, bestie 😭 this command may take awhile. like, go touch some grass, it'll be here when you get back 🌱

Here are your options, mwah:

• -h, --help — Display command usage info. (your lil safety net 🫶)
• -v, --version — Display command version info.
• -l, --log [none|error|info|debug] — Set logging level.
• -u, --unicode — Use TSS UNICODE encoding for passwords to comply with applications using TSS popup boxes.
• -y, --owner-well-known — Set a secret of all zeros (20 bytes of zeros) as the owner's secret.
• -z, --srk-well-known — Set a secret of all zeros (20 bytes of zeros) as the SRK secret.

🌈 SEE ALSO 🌈

tpm_version(1), tpm_setownable(8), tpm_setenable(8), tcsd(8)

🙈 REPORTING BUGS 🙈

Report bugs to <trousers-users@lists.sourceforge.net> — they're literally waiting for your emails, no cap 💌

and that's the whole page, bestie 🎀 this lil icon is brought to you by TPM Management, dated 2005-05-06 — slay, stay ownable, and don't forget the second confirmation 💜