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diff --git a/doc/nitrocli.1 b/doc/nitrocli.1 index 0d33cd6..30a57a8 100644 --- a/doc/nitrocli.1 +++ b/doc/nitrocli.1 @@ -14,8 +14,8 @@ and the password safe. .TP \fB\-m\fR, \fB\-\-model pro\fR|\fBstorage\fR Restrict connections to the given device model. -If this option is not set, nitrocli will connect to any connected Nitrokey Pro -or Nitrokey Storage device. +If this option is not set, \fBnitrocli\fR will connect to any connected Nitrokey +Pro or Nitrokey Storage device. .TP \fB\-v\fR, \fB\-\-verbose\fR Enable additional logging and control its verbosity. Logging enabled through @@ -271,6 +271,32 @@ The admin PIN cannot be unblocked. This operation is equivalent to the unblock PIN option provided by \fBgpg\fR(1) (using the \fB\-\-change\-pin\fR option). +.SS Extensions +In addition to the above built-in commands, \fBnitrocli\fR supports +user-provided functionality in the form of extensions. An extension can be any +executable file whose filename starts with "nitrocli-" and that is discoverable +through lookup via the \fBPATH\fR environment variable. + +An extension should honor the following set of options, which are supplied to +the extension by \fBnitrocli\fR itself: +.TP +\fB\-\-nitrocli\fR \fIpath\fR +The path to the \fBnitrocli\fR binary. This path can be used to recursively +invoke \fBnitrocli\fR to implement certain functionality. This option is +guaranteed to be supplied. +.TP +\fB\-\-model pro\fR|\fBstorage\fR +Restrict connections to the given device model (see the Options section for more +details). This option is supplied only if it was provided by the user to the +invocation of \fBnitrocli\fR itself. +.TP +\fB\-\-verbosity\fR \fIlevel\fR +Control the logging verbosity by setting the log level to \fIlevel\fR. The +default level is 0, which corresponds to an invocation of \fBnitrocli\fR +without additional logging related options. Each additional occurrence of +\fB\-v\fR/\fB\-\-verbose\fR increments the log level accordingly. This option is +guaranteed to be supplied. + .SH ENVIRONMENT The program honors a set of environment variables that can be used to suppress interactive PIN entry through \fBpinentry\fR(1). The following |