addrconsole(8)

addrconsole8

Setup a new remote console user

Usage

addrconsole

Overview

This manual page documents briefly the addrconsole command.

addrconsole sets up a new remote console user; it creates the user account, sets up the rconsole configuration links and starts up the server for that port. It runs as an interactive script and requests a username, serial port and password.

Releases

Unchanged in 9 releases since Debian 4.0 (Etch).

  1. 4.0–12

Author

rtty was written by Paul Vixie <[email protected]>. The addrconsole script and this manual page were written by Jonathan McDowell <[email protected]> for the Debian project (but may be used by others).

From remote-tty 4.0-13.1+b1 in Debian 12 (Bookworm). Parsed by carta from the page's man source.