Section 8: administration and privileged commands
wireshark_selinux – Security Enhanced Linux Policy for the wireshark processes Description Security-Enhanced Linux secures the wireshark processes via flexible mandatory access control. The wireshark processes execute with the wireshark_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…
wire-test – test your network interfaces and local IP address Synopsis wire-test [ host ] Description wire-test is used to find out what amd thinks are the first two network interfaces and network names/numbers used, as well as the IP address used for amd to NFS-mount itself. If host is specified, then wire-test will test…
wipefs – wipe a signature from a device Synopsis wipefs [options] device… wipefs [–backup] -o offset device… wipefs [–backup] -a device… Description wipefs can erase filesystem, raid or partition-table signatures (magic strings) from the specified device to make the signatures invisible for libblkid. wipefs does not erase the filesystem itself nor any other data from…
wine_selinux – Security Enhanced Linux Policy for the wine processes Description Security-Enhanced Linux secures the wine processes via flexible mandatory access control. The wine processes execute with the wine_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…
winbindd – Name Service Switch daemon for resolving names from NT servers Synopsis winbindd [-D|–daemon] [-F|–foreground] [-S|–stdout] [-i|–interactive] [-d <debug level>] [-s <smb config file>] [-n|–no-caching] [–no-process-group] Description This program is part of the samba(7) suite. winbindd is a daemon that provides a number of services to the Name Service Switch capability found in most modern C…
winbind_selinux – Security Enhanced Linux Policy for the winbind processes Description Security-Enhanced Linux secures the winbind processes via flexible mandatory access control. The winbind processes execute with the winbind_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…
winbind_helper_selinux – Security Enhanced Linux Policy for the winbind_helper processes Description Security-Enhanced Linux secures the winbind_helper processes via flexible mandatory access control. The winbind_helper processes execute with the winbind_helper_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…
Wicd – Wired and Wireless Network Connection Manager Theory Of Operation Wicd is designed to give the user as much control over behavior of network connections as possible. Every network, both wired and wireless, has its own profile with its own configuration options and connection behavior. Wicd will try to automatically connect only to networks…
wicd-curses – curses-based wicd(8) controller Description wicd-curses is a curses-based network controller that uses the Wired/Wireless Internet Connection Daemon (wicd) to control your network connections. It is suitable to run in terminal multiplexers like screen(1). It is designed to imitate the GTK-based wicd-client(1) as much as possible, and uses the Urwid (http://excess.org/urwid) console widget library…
wicd-cli – commandline- only wicd(8) controller Description TODO :-)
wesside-ng – crack a WEP key of an open network without user intervention Synopsis wesside-ng <options> Description wesside-ng is an auto-magic tool which incorporates a number of techniques to seamlessly obtain a WEP key in minutes. It first identifies a network, then proceeds to associate with it, obtain PRGA (pseudo random generation algorithm) xor data,…
webspy – display sniffed URLs in Netscape in real-time Synopsis webspy [-i interface | -p pcapfile] host Description webspy sends URLs sniffed from a client to your local Netscape browser for display, updated in real-time (as the target surfs, your browser surfs along with them, automagically). Netscape must be running on your local X display…
webmitm – HTTP / HTTPS monkey-in-the-middle Synopsis webmitm [-d] [host] Description webmitm transparently proxies and sniffs HTTP / HTTPS traffic redirected by dnsspoof(8), capturing most "secure" SSL-encrypted webmail logins and form submissions. Options -d Enable debugging mode. May be specified multiple times to greater effect. host Specify a host to proxy to. If none given,…
webalizer_selinux – Security Enhanced Linux Policy for the webalizer processes Description Security-Enhanced Linux secures the webalizer processes via flexible mandatory access control. The webalizer processes execute with the webalizer_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…
webalizer_script_selinux – Security Enhanced Linux Policy for the webalizer_script processes Description Security-Enhanced Linux secures the webalizer_script processes via flexible mandatory access control. The webalizer_script processes execute with the webalizer_script_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…
webadm_r – Web administrator role. – Security Enhanced Linux Policy Description SELinux supports Roles Based Access Control (RBAC), some Linux roles are login roles, while other roles need to be transition into. Note: Examples in this man page will use the staff_u SELinux user. Non login roles are usually used for administrative tasks. For example,…
wdmd_selinux – Security Enhanced Linux Policy for the wdmd processes Description Security-Enhanced Linux secures the wdmd processes via flexible mandatory access control. The wdmd processes execute with the wdmd_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…
wdmd – watchdog multiplexing daemon Synopsis wdmd [OPTIONS] Description This daemon opens /dev/watchdog and allows multiple independent sources to detmermine whether each KEEPALIVE is done. Every test interval (10 seconds), the daemon tests each source. If any test fails, the KEEPALIVE is not done. In a standard configuration, the watchdog timer will reset the system…
wdctl – show hardware watchdog status Synopsis wdctl [options] [device…] Description Show hardware watchdog status. The default device is /dev/watchdog. If more than one device is specified then the output is separated by one blank line. If the device is already used or user has no permissions to read from the device, then wdctl reads…
wd_keepalive – a simplified software watchdog daemon Synopsis wd_keepalive [-c filename|–config-file filename] Description This is a simplified version of the watchdog daemon. If configured so it only opens .IR /dev/watchdog , and keeps writing to it often enough to keep the kernel from resetting, at least once per minute. Each write delays the reboot time another…