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NAME
authvar — handles authenticated variables for pesign
SYNOPSIS
authvar ⟨
-a
|
-c
|
-s
⟩
-N
{guid}
-n
name
⟨
-v
value
|
-f
file
⟩ [
-t
time
]
[
-d
directory
]
[
-S
nickname
]
[
-i
file
]
[
-e
file
]
DESCRIPTION
authvar is a command line utility for handling authenticated UEFI variables.
OPTIONS
-a
|
--append
Append to variable
-c | --clear
Clear variable
-s | --set
set variable
-N
⟨
{guid} | namespace⟩ |
--namespace
⟨
{guid} | namespace⟩
Variable is in namespace or {guid} (
default: global )
Use -N help to list namespaces.
-n name | --name name
Variable name
-v value | --value value
Set or append value to variable
-f file | --valuefile file
Read value from file
-t time | --timestamp time
Timestamp for the variable (
default: now )
-d directory | --certdir directory
Specify nss certificate database directory (
default: /etc/pki/pesign )
-S nickname | --sign nickname
Sign variable with certificate nickname from the NSS database
-i file | --import file
Import variable from file
-e file | --export file
Export variable to file instead of setting it in firmware
STANDARDS
B. Kaliski
,
PKCS #7: Cryptographic Message Syntax v1.5
,
Internet Engineering Task Force
,
RFC 2315 ,
https://tools.ietf.org/html/rfc2315 ,
March 1998 .
K. Moriarty
,
M. Nyström ,
S. Parkinson ,
A. Rusch , and
M. Scott ,
PKCS #12: Personal Information Exchange Syntax v1.1
,
Internet Engineering Task Force
,
RFC 7292 ,
https://tools.ietf.org/html/rfc7292 ,
July 2014 .
PKCS11 Technical Committee
,
PKCS#11: Cryptographic Token Interface Standard
,
OASIS
,
https://www.cryptsoft.com/pkcs11doc/ .
UEFI Specification Working Group
,
Unified Extensible Firmware Interface (UEFI)
Specification Version 2.8
,
Unified Extensible Firmware Interface Forum
,
https://uefi.org/specifications ,
March 2019 .
SEE ALSO
pesign (1), certutil (1)
AUTHORS
Peter Jones Linux Jun 4, 2020$ AUTHVAR (1)