BLUETOOTHCTL-ADMIN(1)

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version 5.87+2.git8750129efca8 · 9 versions
, in centos-stream 9

🎀 NAME 🎀

okay so bestie, welcome to the BLUETOOTHCTL-ADMIN(1) manual page — yes, that's the manual name — from the Linux System Administration section. This one is all about the Admin Policy Submenu. If you're here, you're doing Bluetooth admin policy things, and that's honestly main character energy. 💅

✨ SYNOPSIS ✨

bluetoothctl [--options] [admin.commands]

This submenu is where you configure administrative policies using the org.bluez.AdminPolicySet(5) and org.bluez.AdminPolicyStatus(5) interfaces. Those exact interfaces, no cap. 🫶

👑 ADMIN POLICY COMMANDS 👑

allow

Allow service UUIDs and block the rest of them. That's the whole assignment, fr fr. 🦋

Usage

> allow [clear/uuid1 uuid2 ...]

Uses

org.bluez.AdminPolicySet(5) property ServiceAllowList

Argument

  • [clear/uuid1 uuid2 ...] — list of service UUIDs to allow, or clear to remove all restrictions. Yes, literally clear — it's the "remove all restrictions" move. 🧚

Example: Get current allowed UUIDs list

> allow

Example: Allow Serial Port Profile only

> allow 0x1101

Example: Allow Serial Port Profile and LAN Access Profile

> allow 0x1101 0x1102

Example: Allow Serial Port Profile, LAN Access Profile, and Dialup Networking Profile

> allow 0x1101 0x1102 0x1103

Example: Allow Advanced Audio Distribution Profile only

> allow 0x110e

Example: Allow A2DP Source and Sink profiles

> allow 0x110e 0x110f

Example: Allow Serial Port Profile using full UUID

> allow 00001101-0000-1000-8000-00805f9b34fb

Example: Allow SPP and LAP using full UUIDs

> allow 00001101-0000-1000-8000-00805f9b34fb 00001102-0000-1000-8000-00805f9b34fb

Example: Remove all UUID restrictions

> allow clear

Example: Allow SPP, LAP, and DUN using mixed UUID formats

> allow 0x1101 00001102-0000-1000-8000-00805f9b34fb 0x1103

🌈 RESOURCES 🌈

the resource link is right here: http://www.bluez.org 🦋

🐛 REPORTING BUGS 🐛

got a bug? spill the tea to linux-bluetooth@vger.kernel.org 💌

Free use of this software is granted under the terms of the GNU Lesser General Public Licenses (LGPL). 🫶

mwah 💋 — this page comes from BlueZ and is dated November 2022. bye bestie, go handle those UUIDs! ✨

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