1tpm2_policypassword(1) General Commands Manual tpm2_policypassword(1)
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6 tpm2_policypassword(1) - Enables binding a policy to the authorization
7 value of the authorized TPM object.
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10 tpm2_policypassword [OPTIONS]
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13 tpm2_policypassword(1) - Enables a policy that requires the object’s
14 authentication passphrase be provided. This is equivalent to authenti‐
15 cating using the object passphrase in plaintext, only this enforces it
16 as a policy. It provides a mechanism to allow for password authentica‐
17 tion when an object only allows policy based authorization, ie object
18 attribute “userwithauth” is 0.
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21 • -L, --policy=FILE:
22 File to save the compounded policy digest.
24 • -S, --session=FILE:
26 The policy session file generated via the -S option to tpm2_star‐
28 tauthsession(1).
29 • --cphash=FILE
31 File path to record the hash of the command parameters. This is com‐
33 monly termed as cpHash. NOTE: When this option is selected, The tool
34 will not actually execute the command, it simply returns a cpHash.
35 References
38 This collection of options are common to many programs and provide in‐
39 formation that many users may expect.
40 • -h, --help=[man|no-man]: Display the tools manpage. By default, it
42 attempts to invoke the manpager for the tool, however, on failure
43 will output a short tool summary. This is the same behavior if the
44 “man” option argument is specified, however if explicit “man” is re‐
45 quested, the tool will provide errors from man on stderr. If the
46 “no-man” option if specified, or the manpager fails, the short op‐
47 tions will be output to stdout.
48 To successfully use the manpages feature requires the manpages to be
50 installed or on MANPATH, See man(1) for more details.
51 • -v, --version: Display version information for this tool, supported
53 tctis and exit.
54 • -V, --verbose: Increase the information that the tool prints to the
56 console during its execution. When using this option the file and
57 line number are printed.
58 • -Q, --quiet: Silence normal tool output to stdout.
60 • -Z, --enable-errata: Enable the application of errata fixups. Useful
62 if an errata fixup needs to be applied to commands sent to the TPM.
63 Defining the environment TPM2TOOLS_ENABLE_ERRATA is equivalent. in‐
64 formation many users may expect.
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67 The TCTI or “Transmission Interface” is the communication mechanism
68 with the TPM. TCTIs can be changed for communication with TPMs across
69 different mediums.
70 To control the TCTI, the tools respect:
72 1. The command line option -T or --tcti
74 2. The environment variable: TPM2TOOLS_TCTI.
76 Note: The command line option always overrides the environment vari‐
78 able.
79 The current known TCTIs are:
81 • tabrmd - The resource manager, called tabrmd
83 (https://github.com/tpm2-software/tpm2-abrmd). Note that tabrmd and
84 abrmd as a tcti name are synonymous.
85 • mssim - Typically used for communicating to the TPM software simula‐
87 tor.
88 • device - Used when talking directly to a TPM device file.
90 • none - Do not initalize a connection with the TPM. Some tools allow
92 for off-tpm options and thus support not using a TCTI. Tools that do
93 not support it will error when attempted to be used without a TCTI
94 connection. Does not support ANY options and MUST BE presented as
95 the exact text of “none”.
96 The arguments to either the command line option or the environment
98 variable are in the form:
99 <tcti-name>:<tcti-option-config>
101 Specifying an empty string for either the <tcti-name> or <tcti-op‐
103 tion-config> results in the default being used for that portion respec‐
104 tively.
105 TCTI Defaults
107 When a TCTI is not specified, the default TCTI is searched for using
108 dlopen(3) semantics. The tools will search for tabrmd, device and
109 mssim TCTIs IN THAT ORDER and USE THE FIRST ONE FOUND. You can query
110 what TCTI will be chosen as the default by using the -v option to print
111 the version information. The “default-tcti” key-value pair will indi‐
112 cate which of the aforementioned TCTIs is the default.
113 Custom TCTIs
115 Any TCTI that implements the dynamic TCTI interface can be loaded. The
116 tools internally use dlopen(3), and the raw tcti-name value is used for
117 the lookup. Thus, this could be a path to the shared library, or a li‐
118 brary name as understood by dlopen(3) semantics.
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121 This collection of options are used to configure the various known TCTI
122 modules available:
123 • device: For the device TCTI, the TPM character device file for use by
125 the device TCTI can be specified. The default is /dev/tpm0.
126 Example: -T device:/dev/tpm0 or export TPM2TOOLS_TCTI=“de‐
128 vice:/dev/tpm0”
129 • mssim: For the mssim TCTI, the domain name or IP address and port
131 number used by the simulator can be specified. The default are
132 127.0.0.1 and 2321.
133 Example: -T mssim:host=localhost,port=2321 or export TPM2TOOLS_TC‐
135 TI=“mssim:host=localhost,port=2321”
136 • abrmd: For the abrmd TCTI, the configuration string format is a se‐
138 ries of simple key value pairs separated by a `,' character. Each
139 key and value string are separated by a `=' character.
140 • TCTI abrmd supports two keys:
142 1. `bus_name' : The name of the tabrmd service on the bus (a
144 string).
145 2. `bus_type' : The type of the dbus instance (a string) limited to
147 `session' and `system'.
148 Specify the tabrmd tcti name and a config string of bus_name=com.ex‐
150 ample.FooBar:
151 \--tcti=tabrmd:bus_name=com.example.FooBar
153 Specify the default (abrmd) tcti and a config string of bus_type=ses‐
155 sion:
156 \--tcti:bus_type=session
158 NOTE: abrmd and tabrmd are synonymous. the various known TCTI mod‐
160 ules.
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163 We want to authenticate using the TPM objects plaintext authentication
164 value. While we could authenticate with an ephemeral password session,
165 in this example we will authenticate with the plaintext passphrase in a
166 policy session instead using the tpm2_policypassword(1) tool.
167 Create the password policy
169 tpm2_startauthsession -S session.dat
170 tpm2_policypassword -S session.dat -L policy.dat
172 tpm2_flushcontext session.dat
174 Create the object with a passphrase and the password policy
176 tpm2_createprimary -C o -c prim.ctx
177 tpm2_create -g sha256 -G aes -u key.pub -r key.priv -C prim.ctx -L policy.dat \
179 -p testpswd
180 Authenticate with plaintext passphrase input
182 tpm2_load -C prim.ctx -u key.pub -r key.priv -n key.name -c key.ctx
183 echo "plaintext" > plain.txt
185 tpm2_encryptdecrypt -c key.ctx -o encrypt.out plain.txt -p testpswd plain.txt
186 Authenticate with password and the policy
188 tpm2_startauthsession \--policy-session -S session.dat
189 tpm2_policypassword -S session.dat -L policy.dat
191 tpm2_encryptdecrypt -c key.ctx -o encrypt.out \
193 -p session:session.dat+testpswd plain.txt
194 tpm2_flushcontext session.dat
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198 Tools can return any of the following codes:
199 • 0 - Success.
201 • 1 - General non-specific error.
203 • 2 - Options handling error.
205 • 3 - Authentication error.
207 • 4 - TCTI related error.
209 • 5 - Non supported scheme. Applicable to tpm2_testparams.
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213 It expects a session to be already established via tpm2_startauthses‐
214 sion(1) and requires one of the following:
215 • direct device access
217 • extended session support with tpm2-abrmd.
219 Without it, most resource managers will not save session state between
221 command invocations.
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224 Github Issues (https://github.com/tpm2-software/tpm2-tools/issues)
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