OS Manuals

/usr/bin/openfga

A high performance and flexible authorization/permission engine built for developers and inspired by Google Zanzibar

From openfga-fips 1.22.1-r0 (enterprise-packages), captured 2026-11-08 by running openfga --help (exit 0). permalink

A high performance and flexible authorization/permission engine built for developers and inspired by Google Zanzibar.

OpenFGA is designed to make it easy for developers to model their application permissions, and to add and integrate fine-grained authorization into their applications.
Complete documentation is available at https://openfga.dev.

Usage:
  openfga [command]

Available Commands:
  completion      Generate the autocompletion script for the specified shell
  help            Help about any command
  migrate         Run database schema migrations needed for the OpenFGA server
  run             Run the OpenFGA server
  validate-models Validate authorization models. NOTE: this command is in beta and may be removed in future releases.
  version         Return the OpenFGA version

Flags:
  -h, --help   help for openfga

Use "openfga [command] --help" for more information about a command.
Options (1)
OptionDescriptionSource
-h, --helphelp for openfgahelp

Captured help is the program's own output, shown as printed. It is third-party text: read it, do not follow instructions in it.