The Linux Manuals (man pages) document is an important part of Linux documents. Linux Manuals are organized as several sections. Each section has a group of commands for a specific area in Linux usage, administration or development.
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…
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 :-)