Section 8: administration and privileged commands
yppasswdd_selinux – Security Enhanced Linux Policy for the yppasswdd processes Description Security-Enhanced Linux secures the yppasswdd processes via flexible mandatory access control. The yppasswdd processes execute with the yppasswdd_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…
rpc.yppasswdd – NIS password update daemon Synopsis rpc.yppasswdd [-D directory] -e chsh|chfn [–port number] [-f|–foreground] rpc.yppasswdd [-s shadow] [-p passwd] -e chsh|chfn [–port number] [-f|–foreground] rpc.yppasswdd -x program | -E program -e chsh|chfn [–port number] [-f|–foreground] Description rpc.yppasswdd is the RPC server that lets users change their passwords in the presence of NIS (a.k.a. YP). It must be run on the NIS master server for that…
ypinit – NIS database install and build program Synopsis /usr/lib/yp/ypinit [-m] [-s master_name] Description ypinit builds the domain subdirectory of FC/var/ypF[] for the current default domain. After building the domain subdirectory, ypinit builds a complete set of administrative maps for your system and places them in this directory. The first map created by ypinit -m is…
yphelper – helper application for internal use Description yphelper is a internal helper application for ypserv and should not be used by the normal user or system administrator. Author makedbm was written by Thorsten Kukuk <kukuk [at] linux-nis.org>.
ypbind_selinux – Security Enhanced Linux Policy for the ypbind processes Description Security-Enhanced Linux secures the ypbind processes via flexible mandatory access control. The ypbind processes execute with the ypbind_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…
ypbind – NIS binding process Synopsis ypbind [-broadcast | -ypset | -ypsetme] [-c] [-f configfile] [-no-ping] [-broken-server] [-local-only] [-i | -ping-interval ping-interval] [-r | -rebind-interval rebind-interval] [-d | -debug] [-v | -verbose] [-n | -foreground] [-p port] [-log log-options] [-no-dbus] ypbind –version ypbind –help Description ypbind finds the server for NIS domains and maintains the NIS binding information. The client…
yadifad – an authoritative Internet domain name server. Synopsis yadifad [–config|-c configfile] [–daemon|-d] [-u uid] [-g gid] [-V] [-h] Description yadifad is a Domain Name System (DNS) server, part of the YADIFA distribution from EURid vzw/asbl. The latest version of YADIFA can be found on: http://www.yadifa.eu/download yadifad reads the zone files from yadifad.conf, and starts…
YADIFA is an utility for controlling YADIFAD Synopsis yadifa [–config|-c configfile] [-s host] [@host ] [-K key-name] [–version|-V] [-h] [–verbose|-v] [-t] command [[-q] zone] Description yadifa controls the operation of yadifad. yadifa communicates with a name server over a TCP connection. The protocol used between client – server is an extension of the DNS protocol….
iptables-translate — translation tool to migrate from iptables to nftables ip6tables-translate — translation tool to migrate from ip6tables to nftables Description There is a set of tools to help the system administrator translate a given ruleset from iptables(8) and ip6tables(8) to nftables(8). The available commands are: • iptables-translate • iptables-restore-translate • ip6tables-translate • ip6tables-restore-translate Usage…
xtables-nft — iptables using nftables kernel api Description xtables-nft are versions of iptables that use the nftables API. This is a set of tools to help the system administrator migrate the ruleset from iptables(8), ip6tables(8), arptables(8), and ebtables(8) to nftables(8). The xtables-nft set is composed of several commands: • iptables-nft • iptables-nft-save • iptables-nft-restore •…
xtables-nft — iptables using nftables kernel api Description xtables-nft are versions of iptables that use the nftables API. This is a set of tools to help the system administrator migrate the ruleset from iptables(8), ip6tables(8), arptables(8), and ebtables(8) to nftables(8). The xtables-nft set is composed of several commands: • iptables-nft • iptables-nft-save • iptables-nft-restore •…
xtables-multi – xtables multi-link binary for netfilter’s iptables and ip6tables Synopsis n/a Description xtables-multi has no official man page. It is a binary that behaves according to the name it is called by. SEEALSO lists the names. See Also iptables(8), ip6tables(8), iptables-save(8), ip6tables-save(8), iptables-restore(8), ip6tables-restore(8)
xtables-monitor — show changes to rule set and trace-events Synopsis xtables-monitor [-t] [-e] [-4||-6] Description xtables-monitor is used to monitor changes to the ruleset or to show rule evaluation events for packets tagged using the TRACE target. xtables-monitor will run until the user aborts execution, typically by using CTRL-C. Options -e, –event Watch for updates…
xtables-legacy — iptables using old getsockopt/setsockopt-based kernel api Description xtables-legacy are the original versions of iptables that use old getsockopt/setsockopt-based kernel interface. This kernel interface has some limitations, therefore iptables can also be used with the newer nf_tables based API. See xtables-nft(8) for information about the xtables-nft variants of iptables. Usage The xtables-legacy-multi binary can…
xtables-legacy — iptables using old getsockopt/setsockopt-based kernel api Description xtables-legacy are the original versions of iptables that use old getsockopt/setsockopt-based kernel interface. This kernel interface has some limitations, therefore iptables can also be used with the newer nf_tables based API. See xtables-nft(8) for information about the xtables-nft variants of iptables. Usage The xtables-legacy-multi binary can…
xtables-compat – compat tools to migrate from iptables to nftables Description xtables-compat is set of tools to help the system administrator migrate the ruleset from iptables(8), ip6tables(8), arptables(8), and ebtables(8) to nftables(8). The xtables-compat set is composed of several commands: • iptables-compat • iptables-compat-save • iptables-compat-restore • ip6tables-compat • ip6tables-compat-save • ip6tables-compat-restore • arptables-compat •…
xserver_selinux – Security Enhanced Linux Policy for the xserver processes Description Security-Enhanced Linux secures the xserver processes via flexible mandatory access control. The xserver processes execute with the xserver_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…
xrootd – eXtended ROOT daemon Synopsis xrootd [options] [exports] Description The xrootd daemon provides LAN/WAN access to data in stand-alone nodes, clustered nodes, as well as globally federated clusters. Usage synopsis can be displayed by typing "xrootd -h". Complete HTML documentation can be found at http://xrootd.org/doc/prod/xrd_config.htm Notes Documentation for all components associated with xrootd can…
xrdsssadmin – administer simple shared secret keytables Synopsis xrdsssadmin [options] command [file] Description The xrdsssadmin utility displays and maintains keytables for the simple shared secret (sss) security protocol. Complete HTML documentation can be found at http://xrootd.org/doc/prod/sec_config.htm Notes Documentation for all components associated with xrdsssadmin can be found at http://xrootd.org/docs.html Diagnostics Errors yield an error message…
xrdpwdadmin – administer pwd security protocol passwords Synopsis xrdpwdadmin [-m mode] command [options] Description The xrdpwdadmin utility displays and maintains password and auto-login files used by the password (pwd) security protocol. Complete HTML documentation can be found at http://xrootd.org/doc/prod/sec_config.htm Notes Documentation for all components associated with xrdpwdadmin can be found at http://xrootd.org/docs.html Diagnostics Errors yield…