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/usr/bin/tailscale

The easiest, most secure way to use WireGuard and 2FA.

From tailscale 1.104.5-r1 (os), captured 2026-11-07 by running tailscale --help (exit 0) · terse output. permalink

The easiest, most secure way to use WireGuard.

USAGE
  tailscale [flags] <subcommand> [command flags]

For help on subcommands, add --help after: "tailscale status --help".

This CLI is still under active development. Commands and flags will
change in the future.

SUBCOMMANDS
  up           Connect to Tailscale, logging in if needed
  down         Disconnect from Tailscale
  set          Change specified preferences
  get          Show current preference values
  login        Log in to a Tailscale account
  logout       Disconnect from Tailscale and expire current node key
  switch       Switch to a different Tailscale account
  configure    Configure the host to enable more Tailscale features
  syspolicy    Diagnose the MDM and system policy configuration
  netcheck     Print an analysis of local network conditions
  ip           Show Tailscale IP addresses
  dns          Diagnose the internal DNS forwarder
  status       Show state of tailscaled and its connections
  metrics      Show Tailscale metrics
  ping         Ping a host at the Tailscale layer, see how it routed
  nc           Connect to a port on a host, connected to stdin/stdout
  ssh          SSH to a Tailscale machine
  funnel       Serve content and local servers on the internet
  serve        Serve content and local servers on your tailnet
  service      Interact with Tailscale Services
  version      Print Tailscale version
  web          Run a web server for controlling Tailscale
  file         Send or receive files
  bugreport    Print a shareable identifier to help diagnose issues
  cert         Get TLS certs
  lock         Manage tailnet lock
  licenses     Get open source license information
  exit-node    Show machines on your tailnet configured as exit nodes
  update       Update Tailscale to the latest/different version
  whois        Show the machine and user associated with a Tailscale IP (v4 or v6)
  whoami       Show the machine and user identity of the current machine
  drive        Share a directory with your tailnet
  systray      Run a systray application to manage Tailscale
  appc-routes  Print the current app connector routes
  wait         Wait for Tailscale interface/IPs to be ready for binding
  completion   Shell tab-completion scripts

FLAGS
  --socket value
    	path to tailscaled socket (default /var/run/tailscale/tailscaled.sock)
Options (1)
OptionDescriptionSource
--socket valuepath to tailscaled socket (default /var/run/tailscale/tailscaled.sock)help

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