console.apps(5)

🎀 NAME 🎀

console.apps — specify console-accessible privileged applications

okay so you're reading console.apps(5), and it's literally the glow-up guide for which privileged apps get to be accessible to console users 💅

✨ DESCRIPTION ✨

The /etc/security/console.apps/ directory should contain one file per application that wishes to allow access to console users. One app, one file — that's the vibe 🦋

The filename should be the same as the servicename, and ngl the contents are irrelevant; the file may be a zero-length file. Like, it can be completely empty and still slay ✨

The application that the file is used by is free to specify the contents in any way that is useful for it. So the app gets to decide what it wants in there — no cap 🫶

🌈 SEE ALSO 🌈

• pam_console(8)
• console.perms(5)

👑 AUTHOR 👑

Michael K. Johnson <johnsonm@redhat.com>

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