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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)