sbctl Command Examples

A user-friendly secure boot key manager. Note: not enrolling Microsoft's certificates can brick your system. See https://github.com/Foxboron/sbctl/wiki/FAQ#option-rom. More information: https://github.com/Foxboron/sbctl#usage.

• Show the current secure boot status:

sbctl status

• Create custom secure boot keys (by default, everything is stored in /var/lib/sbctl):

sbctl create-keys

• Enroll the custom secure boot keys and Microsoft's UEFI vendor certificates:

sbctl enroll-keys --microsoft

• Automatically run create-keys and enroll-keys based on the settings in /etc/sbctl/sbctl.conf:

sbctl setup --setup

• Sign an EFI binary with the created key and save the file to the database:

sbctl sign {{-s|--save}} {{path/to/efi_binary}}

• Re-sign all the saved files:

sbctl sign-all

• Verify that all EFI executables on the EFI system partition have been signed:

sbctl verify