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.
automount2amd – converts old Sun automount maps to Amd maps Synopsis automount2amd auto.map Description automount2amd is used to convert an old Sun automount maps named auto.map to an Amd map. This perl script will use the following /default entry type:=nfs;opts:=rw,grpid,nosuid,utimeout=600 If you wish to override that, define the $DEFAULTS environment variable, or modify the script….
automount – manage autofs mount points Synopsis automount [options] [master_map] Description The automount program is used to manage mount points for autofs, the inlined Linux automounter. automount works by reading the auto.master(5) map and sets up mount points for each entry in the master map allowing them to be automatically mounted when accessed. The file…
Service control for the automounter Synopsis If a SysV init script system is being used: /etc/rc.d/init.d/autofs start|stop|restart|reload|status or if the systemd init system is being used: systemctl start|stop|restart|reload|status autofs.service Description autofs controls the operation of the automount(8) daemon(s) running on the Linux system. Usually autofs is invoked at system boot time with the start parameter…
authconfig_selinux – Security Enhanced Linux Policy for the authconfig processes Description Security-Enhanced Linux secures the authconfig processes via flexible mandatory access control. The authconfig processes execute with the authconfig_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…
authconfig, authconfig-tui – an interface for configuring system authentication resources Synopsis authconfig [options] {–update|–updateall|–test|–probe|–restorebackup <name>|–savebackup <name>|–restorelastbackup} Description authconfig provides a simple method of configuring /etc/sysconfig/network to handle NIS, as well as /etc/passwd and /etc/shadow, the files used for shadow password support. Basic LDAP, Kerberos 5, and Winbind client configuration is also provided. If –test action…
authconfig, authconfig-tui – an interface for configuring system authentication resources Synopsis authconfig [options] {–update|–updateall|–test|–probe|–restorebackup <name>|–savebackup <name>|–restorelastbackup} Description authconfig provides a simple method of configuring /etc/sysconfig/network to handle NIS, as well as /etc/passwd and /etc/shadow, the files used for shadow password support. Basic LDAP, Kerberos 5, and Winbind client configuration is also provided. If –test action…
authconfig-gtk, system-config-authentication – GUI utility for configuring user identity and system authentication services Synopsis authconfig-gtk [–nox] [–updateall] [–firstboot] Description authconfig-gtk provides a simple graphical user interface for configuring user identity and system authentication services. It provides basic configuration options to handle NIS, LDAP, Kerberos 5, and Winbind client configuration. Options If the –nox option is…
ausyscall – a program that allows mapping syscall names and numbers Synopsis ausyscall [arch] name | number | –dump | –exact Description ausyscall is a program that prints out the mapping from syscall name to number and reverse for the given arch. The arch can be anything returned by `uname -m`. If arch is not…
ausearch – a tool to query audit daemon logs Synopsis ausearch [options] Description ausearch is a tool that can query the audit daemon logs based for events based on different search criteria. The ausearch utility can also take input from stdin as long as the input is the raw log data. Each commandline option given…
aureport – a tool that produces summary reports of audit daemon logs Synopsis aureport [options] Description aureport is a tool that produces summary reports of the audit system logs. The aureport utility can also take input from stdin as long as the input is the raw log data. The reports have a column label at…
aulastlog – a program similar to lastlog Synopsis aulastlog [ options ] Description aulastlog is a program that prints out the last login for all users of the local machine similar to the way lastlog does. The login-name, port, and last login time will be printed. If the user has never logged in, the message…
aulast – a program similar to last Synopsis aulast [ options ] Description aulast is a program that prints out a listing of the last logged in users similarly to the program last and lastb. Aulast searches back through the audit logs or the given audit log file and displays a list of all users…
augenrules – a script that merges component audit rule files Synopsis augenrules [–check] [–load] Description augenrules is a script that merges all component audit rules files, found in the audit rules directory, /etc/audit/rules.d, placing the merged file in /etc/audit/audit.rules. Component audit rule files, must end in .rules in order to be processed. All other files in…
auditd_selinux – Security Enhanced Linux Policy for the auditd processes Description Security-Enhanced Linux secures the auditd processes via flexible mandatory access control. The auditd processes execute with the auditd_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…
auditd – The Linux Audit daemon Synopsis auditd [-f] [-l] [-n] [-s disable|enable|nochange] Description auditd is the userspace component to the Linux Auditing System. It’s responsible for writing audit records to the disk. Viewing the logs is done with the ausearch or aureport utilities. Configuring the audit system or loading rules is done with the auditctl utility. During…
auditctl_selinux – Security Enhanced Linux Policy for the auditctl processes Description Security-Enhanced Linux secures the auditctl processes via flexible mandatory access control. The auditctl processes execute with the auditctl_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…
auditctl – a utility to assist controlling the kernel’s audit system Synopsis auditctl [options] Description The auditctl program is used to configure kernel options related to auditing, to see status of the configuration, and to load discretionary audit rules. Configuration Options -b backlog Set max number of outstanding audit buffers allowed (Kernel Default=64) If all buffers…
auditadm_sudo_selinux – Security Enhanced Linux Policy for the auditadm_sudo processes Description Security-Enhanced Linux secures the auditadm_sudo processes via flexible mandatory access control. The auditadm_sudo processes execute with the auditadm_sudo_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…
auditadm_su_selinux – Security Enhanced Linux Policy for the auditadm_su processes Description Security-Enhanced Linux secures the auditadm_su processes via flexible mandatory access control. The auditadm_su processes execute with the auditadm_su_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…
auditadm_r – Audit 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,…