You can use NSS console commands to display volume status and to activate, mount, deactivate, or dismount encrypted volumes. You must enter a password only on the first activation following a system reboot. Thereafter, other environmental security and authentication measures control access to user data.
The following table provides the syntax for NSS commands to use with encrypted volumes. In each case, replace volname with the name of the encrypted NSS volume. In general, you cannot use the wildcard option of all as the volname. Until an encrypted volume is activated with its password following each system reboot, the All option does not find the volume and does not execute the command. The system returns an error message, requesting more information.
You cannot use wildcard options and commands to activate encrypted volumes, such as nss /VolumeAutoActivate.