Section 8: administration and privileged commands
xfce4-kiosk-query – Queries Xfce4 kiosk capabilities Synopsis xfce4-kiosk-query [options]modulecapability… Description This manual page documents briefly the xfce4-kiosk-query command. xfce4-kiosk-query is a program that queries the given capabilities of module for the current user and reports whether the user has the capabilities or not. This tool is mainly meant for system administrators to test their Kiosk…
xentrace – capture Xen trace buffer data Synopsis xentrace [ OPTIONS ] [ FILE ] Description xentrace is used to capture trace buffer data from Xen. The data is output in the following binary format (host endian): CPU(uint) TSC(u64) EVENT(u32) D1 D2 D3 D4 D5 (all u32) Where CPU is the processor number, TSC is the record’s timestamp (the…
xenstored_selinux – Security Enhanced Linux Policy for the xenstored processes Description Security-Enhanced Linux secures the xenstored processes via flexible mandatory access control. The xenstored processes execute with the xenstored_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…
xend_selinux – Security Enhanced Linux Policy for the xend processes Description Security-Enhanced Linux secures the xend processes via flexible mandatory access control. The xend processes execute with the xend_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…
xenconsoled_selinux – Security Enhanced Linux Policy for the xenconsoled processes Description Security-Enhanced Linux secures the xenconsoled processes via flexible mandatory access control. The xenconsoled processes execute with the xenconsoled_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…
xdm_unconfined_selinux – Security Enhanced Linux Policy for the xdm_unconfined processes Description Security-Enhanced Linux secures the xdm_unconfined processes via flexible mandatory access control. The xdm_unconfined processes execute with the xdm_unconfined_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…
xdm_selinux – Security Enhanced Linux Policy for the xdm processes Description Security-Enhanced Linux secures the xdm processes via flexible mandatory access control. The xdm processes execute with the xdm_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…
xauth_selinux – Security Enhanced Linux Policy for the xauth processes Description Security-Enhanced Linux secures the xauth processes via flexible mandatory access control. The xauth processes execute with the xauth_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…
x86_energy_perf_policy – read or write MSR_IA32_ENERGY_PERF_BIAS Synopsis x86_energy_perf_policy [-c cpu] [-v] -r x86_energy_perf_policy [-c cpu] [-v] ‘performance’ x86_energy_perf_policy [-c cpu] [-v] ‘normal’ x86_energy_perf_policy [-c cpu] [-v] ‘powersave’ x86_energy_perf_policy [-c cpu] [-v] n Description x86_energy_perf_policy allows software to convey its policy for the relative importance of performance versus energy savings to the processor. The processor uses…
setarch – change reported architecture in new program environment and/or set personality flags Synopsis setarch [arch] [options] [program [argument…]] setarch –list|-h|-V arch [options] [program [argument…]] Description setarch modifies execution domains and process personality flags. The execution domains currently only affects the output of uname -m. For example, on an AMD64 system, running setarch i386 program…
writelog – add a entry to an INN log file. Synopsis writelog name text… Description The writelog script is used to write a log entry or send it as mail. The name parameter specifies the name of the log file where the entry should be written. If it is the word “mail” then the entry…
wpa_supplicant – Wi-Fi Protected Access client and IEEE 802.1X supplicant Synopsis wpa_supplicant [ -BddfhKLqqsTtuvW ] [ -iifname ] [ -cconfig file ] [ -Ddriver ] [ -PPID_file ] [ -foutput file ] Overview Wireless networks do not require physical access to the network equipment in the same way as wired networks. This makes it easier…
wpa_selinux – Security Enhanced Linux Policy for the wpa processes Description Security-Enhanced Linux secures the wpa processes via flexible mandatory access control. Nsswitch Domain File Contexts SELinux requires files to have an extended attribute to define the file type. You can see the context of a file using the -Z option to lsP Policy governs…
wpa_priv – wpa_supplicant privilege separation helper Synopsis wpa_priv [ -c ctrl path ] [ -Bdd ] [ -P pid file ] [ driver:ifname [driver:ifname …] ] Overview wpa_priv is a privilege separation helper that minimizes the size of wpa_supplicant code that needs to be run with root privileges. If enabled, privileged operations are done in…
wpa_passphrase – Generate a WPA PSK from an ASCII passphrase for a SSID Synopsis wpa_passphrase [ ssid ] [ passphrase ] Overview wpa_passphrase pre-computes PSK entries for network configuration blocks of a wpa_supplicant.conf file. An ASCII passphrase and SSID are used to generate a 256-bit PSK. Options ssid The SSID whose passphrase should be derived….
wpa_gui – WPA Graphical User Interface Synopsis wpa_gui [ -p path to ctrl sockets ] [ -i ifname ] [ -m seconds ] [ -t ] [ -q ] Overview wpa_gui is a QT graphical frontend program for interacting with wpa_supplicant. It is used to query current status, change configuration and request interactive user input….
wpa_cli_selinux – Security Enhanced Linux Policy for the wpa_cli processes Description Security-Enhanced Linux secures the wpa_cli processes via flexible mandatory access control. The wpa_cli processes execute with the wpa_cli_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…
wpa_cli – WPA command line client Synopsis wpa_cli [ -p path to ctrl sockets ] [ -g path to global ctrl_interface socket ] [ -i ifname ] [ -hvB ] [ -a action file ] [ -P pid file ] [ -G ping interval ] [ command … ] Overview wpa_cli is a text-based frontend…
wpa_background – Background information on Wi-Fi Protected Access and IEEE 802.11i Wpa The original security mechanism of IEEE 802.11 standard was not designed to be strong and has proven to be insufficient for most networks that require some kind of security. Task group I (Security) of IEEE 802.11 working group (http://www.ieee802.org/11/) has worked to address…
wpa_action – wpa_cli action script Synopsis wpa_action IFACE ACTION Description wpa_action is a shell script designed to control the ifupdown framework according to ACTION events received from wpa_supplicant. wpa_cli receives CONNECTED and DISCONNECTED events from wpa_supplicant via the crtl_iface socket and gives the ACTION event to the wpa_action script as an argument, along with the…