See also: Authentication, How to authenticate clients with the Multipass service,
local.passhprase
The authenticate command is used to authenticate a client with the Multipass service. Once authenticated, the client can issue commands such as list, launch, etc.
To help reduce the amount of typing for authenticate, one can also use multipass auth as an alias:
multipass auth foo
If no passphrase is specified in the multipass authenticate command line, you will be prompted to enter it.
The full multipass help authenticate output explains the available options:
Usage: multipass authenticate [options] [<passphrase>]
Authenticate with the Multipass service.
A system administrator should provide you with a passphrase
to allow use of the Multipass service.
Options:
-h, --help Displays help on commandline options
-v, --verbose Increase logging verbosity. Repeat the 'v' in the short option
for more detail. Maximum verbosity is obtained with 4 (or more)
v's, i.e. -vvvv.
Arguments:
passphrase Passphrase to register with the Multipass service. If omitted,
a prompt will be displayed for entering the passphrase.
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