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		       TPM Management - tpm_takeownership

NAME
     tpm_takeownership - setup an owner on the TPM

SYNOPSIS
     tpm_takeownership [OPTION]

DESCRIPTION
     tpm_takeownership	setup an owner on the system's TPM (via the TPM_TakeOwn-
     ership API).  This operation requires the TPM to be enabled and can be  re-
     stricted  by  tpm_setownable.   The  command  will prompt for owner and SRK
     passwords and confirmations of these if  executed	without  either  of  the
     -well-known  options,  otherwise,	a secret of all zeros is set for the re-
     quested password.	After the second confirmation, be patient as the command
     may take awhile.

     -h, --help
	    Display command usage info.

     -v, --version
	    Display command version info.

     -l, --log [none|error|info|debug]
	    Set logging level.

     -u, --unicode
	    Use TSS UNICODE encoding for passwords to comply  with  applications
	    using TSS popup boxes

     -y, --owner-well-known
	    Set a secret of all zeros (20 bytes of zeros) as the owner's secret.

     -z, --srk-well-known
	    Set a secret of all zeros (20 bytes of zeros) as the SRK secret.

SEE ALSO
     tpm_version(1), tpm_setownable(8), tpm_setenable(8), tcsd(8)

REPORTING BUGS
     Report bugs to <trousers-users@lists.sourceforge.net>

TPM Management			   2005-05-06		    tpm_takeownership(8)

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