USS_HELP(8)

🫶 uss_help — help for uss commands (deprecated) 🫶

okay bestie, welcome to the USS_HELP(8) page from the AFS Command Reference. this one is literally about asking uss for help, and yes it's giving deprecated era energy — keep reading, the caution is important 💅

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🌸 NAME 🌸

uss_help — displays help for uss commands (deprecated)

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✨ SYNOPSIS ✨

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

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

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🚨 CAUTIONS 🚨

heads up, bestie: the uss command suite is currently designed for cells using the obsolete Authentication Server, so it’s primarily useful for sites that have not yet migrated to a Kerberos version 5 KDC. the Authentication Server and supporting commands will be removed in a future version of OpenAFS — and that may include uss — unless someone who finds it useful converts it to work with a Kerberos version 5 KDC. no cap, this is important 😭

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💖 DESCRIPTION 💖

the uss help command displays the complete online help entry — short description and syntax statement — for each command operation code specified by the -topic argument.

if you omit -topic, the output includes the first line (name and short description) of the online help entry for every uss command ✨

and if you want to list every uss command whose name or short description includes a specified keyword, use the uss apropos command. iykyk 🫶

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🎀 OPTIONS 🎀

• -topic <help string>+ — indicates each command for which to display the complete online help entry. omit the uss part of the command name and provide only the operation code (for example, specify bulk, not uss bulk). if this argument is omitted, the output briefly describes every uss command.
• -help — prints the online help for this command. all other valid options are ignored 👑

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🦋 OUTPUT 🦋

the online help entry for each uss command consists of the following two or three lines:

• the first line names the command and briefly describes its function.
• the second line lists aliases for the command, if any.
• the final line, which begins with the string "Usage", lists the command’s options in the prescribed order. online help entries use the same symbols (for example, brackets) as the reference pages in this document.

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🌈 EXAMPLES 🌈

the following command displays the online help entry for the uss bulk command:

% uss help bulk
uss bulk: bulk input mode
Usage: uss bulk -file <bulk input file> [-template <pathname
of template file>] [-verbose] [-cell <cell name>] [-admin
<administrator to authenticate>] [-dryrun] [-skipauth] [-overwrite]
[-pwexpires <password expires in [0..254] days (0 => never)>] [-pipe]
[-help]

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💜 PRIVILEGE REQUIRED 💜

None. zero. nada. you’re free ✨

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🍓 SEE ALSO 🍓

uss(8), uss_apropos(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.

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