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.
pam_debug – PAM module to debug the PAM stack Synopsis pam_debug.so [auth=value] [cred=value] [acct=value] [prechauthtok=value] [chauthtok=value] [auth=value] [open_session=value] [close_session=value] Description The pam_debug PAM module is intended as a debugging aide for determining how the PAM stack is operating. This module returns what its module arguments tell it to return. Options auth=value The pam_sm_authenticate(3) function will…
pam_cracklib – PAM module to check the password against dictionary words Synopsis pam_cracklib.so […] Description This module can be plugged into the password stack of a given application to provide some plug-in strength-checking for passwords. The action of this module is to prompt the user for a password and check its strength against a system…
pam_console_selinux – Security Enhanced Linux Policy for the pam_console processes Description Security-Enhanced Linux secures the pam_console processes via flexible mandatory access control. The pam_console processes execute with the pam_console_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…
pam_console_apply – set or revoke permissions for users at the system console Synopsis pam_console_apply [-f <fstab file>] [-c <console.perms file>] [-r] [-t <tty>] [-s] [-d] [<device file> …] Description pam_console_apply is a helper executable which sets or resets permissions on device nodes. If /var/run/console.lock exists, pam_console_apply will grant permissions to the user listed therein. If…
pam_console – determine user owning the system console Synopsis session optional pam_console.so auth required pam_console.so Description pam_console.so is designed to give users at the physical console (virtual terminals and local xdm-managed X sessions by default, but that is configurable) capabilities that they would not otherwise have, and to take those capabilities away when the are…
pam_ck_connector – Register session with ConsoleKit Synopsis pam_ck_connector.so [debug] Description The pam_ck_connector PAM module registers a login session with the system-wide ConsoleKit daemon. This PAM module should be used with caution; only local login managers such as login(1) should use this. Since the ConsoleKit daemon can accept both an tty and an X11 display the…
pam_cap – PAM module to set inheritable capabilities Synopsis pam_cap.so [config=/path/to/capability.conf] [debug] Description The pam_cap PAM module sets the current process’ inheritable capabilities. Capabilities are read from the /etc/security/capability.conf config file, or alternate file specified with the config= option. The module must not be called by a multithreaded application. Options config=/path/to/capability.conf Indicate an alternative capability.conf…
pam_access – PAM module for logdaemon style login access control Synopsis pam_access.so [debug] [nodefgroup] [noaudit] [accessfile=file] [fieldsep=sep] [listsep=sep] Description The pam_access PAM module is mainly for access management. It provides logdaemon style login access control based on login names, host or domain names, internet addresses or network numbers, or on terminal line names, X $DISPLAY…
pam-auth-update – manage PAM configuration using packaged profiles Synopsis pam-auth-update [–package [–remove profile [profile…]]] [–force] Description pam-auth-update is a utility that permits configuring the central authentication policy for the system using pre-defined profiles as supplied by PAM module packages. Profiles shipped in the /usr/share/pam-configs/ directory specify the modules, with options, to enable; the preferred ordering…
pads_selinux – Security Enhanced Linux Policy for the pads processes Description Security-Enhanced Linux secures the pads processes via flexible mandatory access control. The pads processes execute with the pads_t SELinux type. You can check if you have these processes running by executing the ps command with the -Z qualifier. For example: ps -eZ | grep…
Pacemaker – Part of the Pacemaker cluster resource manager Synopsis pacemakerd mode [options] Description pacemakerd – Start/Stop Pacemaker Options -?, –help This text -$, –version Version information -V, –verbose Increase debug output -S, –shutdown Instruct Pacemaker to shutdown on this machine -F, –features Display the full version and list of features Pacemaker was built with…
pacemaker_selinux – Security Enhanced Linux Policy for the pacemaker processes Description pacemaker_t SELinux domain type is now associated with cluster domain type (cluster_t). Please see cluster_selinux man page for more details. Commands semanage fcontext can also be used to manipulate default file context mappings. semanage permissive can also be used to manipulate whether or not…
Pacemaker – Part of the Pacemaker cluster resource manager Synopsis pacemaker_remoted [options] Description pacemaker_remoted – Pacemaker Remote daemon for extending pacemaker functionality to remote nodes. Options -?, –help This text -$, –version Version information -V, –verbose Increase debug output -l, –logfile=value Send logs to the additional named logfile Author Written by Andrew Beekhof Reporting Bugs…
p11-kit – Tool for operating on configured PKCS#11 modules Synopsis p11-kit list-modules p11-kit extract … p11-kit server … Description p11-kit is a command line tool that can be used to perform operations on PKCS#11 modules configured on the system. See the various sub commands below. The following global options can be used: -v,…
ownership – Compaq ownership tag retriever Synopsis ownership [OPTIONS] Description ownership retrieves and prints the "ownership tag" that can be set on Compaq computers. Contrary to all other programs of the dmidecode package, ownership doesn’t print any version information, nor labels, but only the raw ownership tag. This should help its integration in scripts. Options…
ovs-vswitchd – Open vSwitch daemon Synopsis ovs-vswitchd [database] Description A daemon that manages and controls any number of Open vSwitch switches on the local machine. The database argument specifies how ovs-vswitchd connects to ovsdb-server. The default is unix:/var/run/openvswitch/db.sock. The following forms are accepted: ssl:ip:port The specified SSL port on the host at the given ip,…
ovs-vsctl – utility for querying and configuring ovs-vswitchd Synopsis ovs-vsctl [options] — [options] command [args] [— [options] command [args]]… Description The ovs-vsctl program configures ovs-vswitchd(8) by providing a high-level interface to its configuration database. See ovs-vswitchd.conf.db(5) for comprehensive documentation of the database schema. ovs-vsctl connects to an ovsdb-server process that maintains an Open vSwitch configuration…
ovs-testcontroller – simple OpenFlow controller for testing Synopsis ovs-testcontroller [options] method [method]… Description ovs-testcontroller is a simple OpenFlow controller that manages any number of switches over the OpenFlow protocol, causing them to function as L2 MAC-learning switches or hubs. It is suitable for initial testing of OpenFlow networks. It is not a necessary or desirable…
ovs-pki – OpenFlow public key infrastructure management utility Synopsis Each command takes the form: ovs-pki [options] command [args] The implemented commands and their arguments are: ovs-pki init ovs-pki req name ovs-pki sign name [type] ovs-pki req+sign name [type] ovs-pki verify name [type] ovs-pki fingerprint file ovs-pki self-sign name Each type above is a certificate type,…
ovs-parse-backtrace – parses ovs-appctl backtrace output Synopsis ovs-appctl backtrace | ovs-parse-backtrace [binary] ovs-parse-backtrace [binary] < backtrace Description In some configurations, many Open vSwitch daemons can produce a series of backtraces using the ovs-appctl backtrace command. Users can analyze these backtraces to figure out what the given Open vSwitch daemon may be spending most of its…