YubiKey OTP generation from the command line

One less reason to leave your favorite place, the terminal!

Install

macOS prerequisite:

brew install swig

Install ykman with pipx, the official YubiKey manager CLI application

pipx install yubikey-manager

Usage

To list all available accounts

ykman oath accounts list

Generating an access code for an account that’s called danthelion:daniel@arecadata.com

ykman oath accounts code "

You will be prompted to touch your YubiKey as usual and your code will be generated!

Touch your YubiKey ...

danthelion:daniel@arecadata.com 461489

You can wrap this in a shell function for easy access. Create as many functions as you would like for different accounts if needed.

yk-main () {    echo "Generating code for '

Add this to your .zshrc to be able to invoke it whenever you want via running yk-main. After touching your YubiKey your access code will be pasted to your clipboard automatically.