RCONSOLE-USER(1)

💖 RCONSOLE-USER — the manual page, bestie edition 💖

okay so this is the manual page for rconsole-user, which lives in section 1 of the manual (General Commands Manual, if you're keeping score) 👑

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✨ NAME ✨

rconsole-user — attach to the remote-tty console that matches whatever your current username is 🦋

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✨ SYNOPSIS ✨

rconsole-user

that's it. that's the whole thing. no flags, no args, no drama 💅

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✨ DESCRIPTION ✨

okay bestie, here's the lowdown — this page documents rconsole-user briefly, and honestly the command itself is just as chill.

rconsole-user attaches you to the remote-tty console that has the same name as the current user. That's the whole vibe. It takes no options at all, and it invokes rconsole to do the actual attaching.

so who is this for? it's meant to be used as the shell for users who should only have remote console access and not shell access to the machine that's providing the remote console service. like, you get the console, you do not get the whole machine. boundaries, babe ✋✨

ngl this is genuinely iconic design — the command is the cage and the console is the prize 🎀

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✨ SEE ALSO ✨

• rconsole(1)
• ttysrv(8)

go read those too, iykyk 📚

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✨ AUTHOR ✨

rtty was written by Paul Vixie <vixie@isc.org>. 🫶

The rconsole-user script and this very manual page were written by Jonathan McDowell <noodles@earth.li> for the Debian project (but may be used by others). 🌈

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and that's a wrap, bestie!! this page is from October 12, 2004, part of the rconsole-user manual — go forth and attach to your console, you absolute main character 💅✨💖