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license.flexfs

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

Section titled “Subcommands”

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

Persistent Flags

Section titled “Persistent Flags”

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

create identity

Section titled “create identity”
Terminal window
license.flexfs create identity

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

create grant

Section titled “create grant”
Terminal window
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

Section titled “verify”
Terminal window
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) |