Section 8: administration and privileged commands
agetty – alternative Linux getty Synopsis agetty [options] port [baud_rate…] [term] Description agetty opens a tty port, prompts for a login name and invokes the /bin/login command. It is normally invoked by init(8). agetty has several non-standard features that are useful for hardwired and for dial-in lines: • Adapts the tty settings to parity bits…
afs_vlserver_selinux – Security Enhanced Linux Policy for the afs_vlserver processes Description Security-Enhanced Linux secures the afs_vlserver processes via flexible mandatory access control. The afs_vlserver processes execute with the afs_vlserver_t SELinux type. You can check if you have these processes running by executing the ps command with the -Z qualifier. For example: ps -eZ | grep…
afs_selinux – Security Enhanced Linux Policy for the afs processes Description Security-Enhanced Linux secures the afs processes via flexible mandatory access control. The afs processes execute with the afs_t SELinux type. You can check if you have these processes running by executing the ps command with the -Z qualifier. For example: ps -eZ | grep…
afs_ptserver_selinux – Security Enhanced Linux Policy for the afs_ptserver processes Description Security-Enhanced Linux secures the afs_ptserver processes via flexible mandatory access control. The afs_ptserver processes execute with the afs_ptserver_t SELinux type. You can check if you have these processes running by executing the ps command with the -Z qualifier. For example: ps -eZ | grep…
afs_kaserver_selinux – Security Enhanced Linux Policy for the afs_kaserver processes Description Security-Enhanced Linux secures the afs_kaserver processes via flexible mandatory access control. The afs_kaserver processes execute with the afs_kaserver_t SELinux type. You can check if you have these processes running by executing the ps command with the -Z qualifier. For example: ps -eZ | grep…
afs_fsserver_selinux – Security Enhanced Linux Policy for the afs_fsserver processes Description Security-Enhanced Linux secures the afs_fsserver processes via flexible mandatory access control. The afs_fsserver processes execute with the afs_fsserver_t SELinux type. You can check if you have these processes running by executing the ps command with the -Z qualifier. For example: ps -eZ | grep…
afs_bosserver_selinux – Security Enhanced Linux Policy for the afs_bosserver processes Description Security-Enhanced Linux secures the afs_bosserver processes via flexible mandatory access control. The afs_bosserver processes execute with the afs_bosserver_t SELinux type. You can check if you have these processes running by executing the ps command with the -Z qualifier. For example: ps -eZ | grep…
afpd – AppleTalk Filing Protocol daemon Synopsis afpd [-duptDTvI] [-f defaultvolumes] [-s systemvolumes] [-n nbpname] [-c maxconnections] [-g guest] [-P pidfile] [-S port] [-L message] [-F config] [-U uamsv] [-m umask] Description afpd provides an AppleTalk Filing Protocol (AFP) interface to the Unix file system. It is normally started at boot time from /etc/rc. The list of volumes offered to the user is generated from /etc/atalk//AppleVolumes.system…
admin_crontab_selinux – Security Enhanced Linux Policy for the admin_crontab processes Description Security-Enhanced Linux secures the admin_crontab processes via flexible mandatory access control. The admin_crontab processes execute with the admin_crontab_t SELinux type. You can check if you have these processes running by executing the ps command with the -Z qualifier. For example: ps -eZ | grep…
adjtimex – display or set the kernel time variables Synopsis adjtimex [option]… Description This program gives you raw access to the kernel time variables. Anyone may print out the time variables, but only the superuser may change them. Your computer has two clocks – the "hardware clock" that runs all the time, and the system…
adduser, addgroup – add a user or group to the system Synopsis adduser [options] [–home DIR] [–shell SHELL] [–no-create-home] [–uid ID] [–firstuid ID] [–lastuid ID] [–ingroup GROUP | –gid ID] [–disabled-password] [–disabled-login] [–gecos GECOS] [–add_extra_groups] [–encrypt-home] user adduser –system [options] [–home DIR] [–shell SHELL] [–no-create-home] [–uid ID] [–group | –ingroup GROUP | –gid ID] [–disabled-password]…
addpart – tell the kernel about the existence of a partition Synopsis addpart device partition start length Description addpart tells the Linux kernel about the existence of the specified partition. The command is a simple wrapper around the "add partition" ioctl. This command doesn’t manipulate partitions on a block device. Parameters device The disk device….
adduser, addgroup – add a user or group to the system Synopsis adduser [options] [–home DIR] [–shell SHELL] [–no-create-home] [–uid ID] [–firstuid ID] [–lastuid ID] [–ingroup GROUP | –gid ID] [–disabled-password] [–disabled-login] [–gecos GECOS] [–add_extra_groups] [–encrypt-home] user adduser –system [options] [–home DIR] [–shell SHELL] [–no-create-home] [–uid ID] [–group | –ingroup GROUP | –gid ID] [–disabled-password]…
addgnupghome – Create .gnupg home directories Synopsis addgnupghome account_1 account_2…account_n Description If GnuPG is installed on a system with existing user accounts, it is sometimes required to populate the GnuPG home directory with existing files. Especially a ‘trustlist.txt‘ and a keybox with some initial certificates are often desired. This script helps to do this by…
add-shell – add shells to the list of valid login shells Synopsis add-shell shellname [shellname…] Description add-shell copies /etc/shells to /etc/shells.tmp, adds the given shells to this file if they are not already present, and copies this temporary file back to /etc/shells. The shells must be provided by their full pathnames. See Also shells(5)
add-apt-key – Command line tool to add GPG keys to the APT keyring Synopsis add-apt-key [ –help ] [ –verbose ] [ –keyserver name ] keyid Description The add-apt-key will request the specified GPG key from a public keyserver and insert it into the APT keyring so that archives signed with that key will be…
adcli – Tool for performing actions on an Active Directory domain Synopsis adcli info domain.example.com adcli join domain.example.com adcli update adcli create-user [–domain=domain.example.com] user adcli delete-user [–domain=domain.example.com] user adcli create-group [–domain=domain.example.com] user adcli delete-group [–domain=domain.example.com] user adcli add-member [–domain=domain.example.com] group user… adcli remove-member [–domain=domain.example.com] group user… adcli preset-computer [–domain=domain.example.com] computer… adcli reset-computer [–domain=domain.example.com] computer adcli…
actsync, actsyncd – Synchronize newsgroups Synopsis actsync [-AkmT] [-b hostid] [-d hostid] [-g max] [-i ignore-file] [-I hostid] [-l hostid] [-n name] [-o format] [-p min-unchanged] [-q hostid] [-s size] [-t hostid] [-v verbosity] [-w seconds] [-z seconds] [host] host actsyncd config [debug-level [debug-format]] Description actsync permits one to synchronize, compare, or merge two active…
acpid – Advanced Configuration and Power Interface event daemon Synopsis acpid [options] Description acpid is designed to notify user-space programs of ACPI events. acpid should be started during the system boot, and will run as a background process, by default. It will open an events file (/proc/acpi/event by default) and attempt to read whole lines…
acpi_listen – ACPI event listener Synopsis acpi_listen [options] Description acpid is the system-wide ACPI event catcher. acpi_listen is a simple shell-friendly tool which connects to acpid and listens for events. When an event occurs, acpi_listen will print it on stdout. Options -c, –count events Receive up to a maximum number of ACPI events, then exit….