license.flexfs

Caution

This entire page documents an internal tool. license.flexfs is used by Paradigm4 to generate and verify license grants. It is not intended for customer use.

license.flexfs manages the cryptographic signing identity and license grants used by the flexFS licensing system. Grants are ECDSA-signed JSON documents containing an expiration date.

Subcommands

Subcommand	Description
create identity	Generate a new ECDSA P-256 signing keypair
create grant	Create a signed license grant
verify	Verify a grant’s signature and check expiration
version	Print the build version
license	Print license information

Persistent Flags

Flag	Type	Default	Description
--keyFolder	string	~/.flexfs/license	Signing key folder path

create identity

license.flexfs create identity

Generates a new ECDSA P-256 keypair and saves private.pem and public.pem to the key folder.

create grant

license.flexfs create grant [--expires <RFC3339>] [-o <file>]

Creates a signed grant. The grant expires at the specified time (default: 1 month from now). Expiration must be between 1 day and 2 years from now.

Flag	Type	Default	Description
--expires	string	1 month from now	Expiration time in RFC3339 format
--outputFile, -o	string		Output file path (stdout if omitted)

verify

license.flexfs verify [-i <file>]

Verifies the signature on a grant and reports whether it has expired.

Flag	Type	Default	Description
--inputFile, -i	string		Input file path (stdin if omitted)