FRANCINE(1)

✨ FRANCINE(1) ✨

okay bestie, so this is the manual page for francine, and it lives in the General Commands Manual section 1. she's a highly configureable console login program 💅 and yes we're keeping that spelling, it's part of her lore now.

🌸 NAME 🌸

francine — a highly configureable console login program. that's the whole name section, she's lowkey modest like that.

🎀 SYNOPSIS 🎀

francine

that's it. that's the whole invocation. no flags, no args, she just is. ✨

💖 DESCRIPTION 💖

okay so first things first, this manual page is just here to document francine briefly, no cap.

francine is a program that makes your console login more funny 🦋. the way that it works is you can have ANSI logos for both the login mask and the error screen — yes, even when you fumble your password, it's giving aesthetic. 💅

and the placement?? literally wherever you want. the locations of the username and password-promts can be wherever you like on the screen, and you can also configure who is allowed to login, when, and from where. it's giving access control but make it cute. 👑

the main configuration file is /etc/francine.sl, and that's where you set most of the options. additionally, /etc/securetty and /etc/usertty are used for the login authentification check.

🙈 pls notice this, fr fr: you have to use a getty that runs francine for you — you can't directly start it yourself. we sugguest to use rungetty (8) for that. 💖

✨ OPTIONS ✨

This program takes no options at all.

like... zero. none. not a single one. iconic behaviour honestly. 🎀

🦋 SEE ALSO 🦋

• rungetty (8)

👑 AUTHOR 👑

this manual page was written by Rhonda D'Vine <rhonda@debian.org>. we love her, she ate. 💜

and that's the whole page, bestie! 💖 this was the FRANCINE(1) page from the General Commands Manual — shoutout to the source and its version and date, which live in that lil footer line at the bottom of the original. mwah, go log in somewhere cute. 🌈🫶