USS_APROPOS(8)

💅 USS_APROPOS(8) — like, the AFS Command Reference one

okay bestie, welcome to the uss_apropos page (that's the USS_APROPOS(8) manual entry, from the AFS Command Reference — yes it's a whole vibe) 🎀

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✨ NAME ✨

uss_apropos — shows you every help entry that has your keyword string in it. and yeah... it's deprecated 😭 (we'll get to that)

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🌸 SYNOPSIS 🌸

uss apropos -topic <help string> [-help]

uss ap -t <help string> [-h]

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💀 CAUTIONS 💀

okay so, serious talk for a sec 🫶 — the uss command suite is currently designed for cells that use the obsolete Authentication Server. which means it's mainly useful for sites that haven't migrated to a Kerberos version 5 KDC yet. ngl that's the whole situation.

and the tea is: the Authentication Server and all its supporting commands are getting removed in a future version of OpenAFS 🙈 — and that may include uss too, unless somebody who actually finds it useful steps up and converts it to work with a Kerberos version 5 KDC. so like... use it while it's here, bestie 💅

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🦋 DESCRIPTION 🦋

The uss apropos command displays the first line of the online help entry for any uss command that has the string you gave to -topic in its name or its short description.

if you actually want to see the syntax for a command? that's a different command, use uss help ✨

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🎀 OPTIONS 🎀

• -topic <help string>+ — the keyword string you want to match. lowercase letters only, no cap 💅. and if your string is more than a single word, wrap it in double quotes ("") or whatever other delimiters you like.
• -help — prints the online help for this command. every other valid option just gets ignored, she's not listening 🫶

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🌈 OUTPUT 🌈

The first line of a command's online help entry names the command and gives you a quick little description of what it does. This command displays that first line for every uss command where your -topic string shows up in the command name or in that first line. literally that's it, that's the output 👑

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⭐ EXAMPLES ⭐

this one lists every single uss command with the word create in its name or short description:

% uss apropos create
add: create a new user

ate. no notes. 🔥

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🧚 PRIVILEGE REQUIRED 🧚

None 🫶 (yes, none — you don't need anything extra, go off)

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💖 SEE ALSO 💖

• uss(8)
• uss_help(8)

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👑 COPYRIGHT 👑

IBM Corporation 2000. <http://www.ibm.com/> All Rights Reserved.

This documentation is covered by the IBM Public License Version 1.0. It was converted from HTML to POD by software written by Chas Williams and Russ Allbery, based on work by Alf Wachsmann and Elizabeth Cassell. (shoutout to the whole crew, iconic work honestly 🌸)

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and that's the page, bestie — brought to you by OpenAFS, dated 2026-06-25 🦋 bye luv u, go apropos responsibly 💜