ADDRCONSOLE(8)

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💖 ADDRCONSOLE(8) 💖

okay bestie, welcome to section 8 of the System Manager's Manual — the part where we talk about the spicy admin commands that run the whole house down. this one's called addrconsole and she's the little script that gets a brand new remote console user all set up and living her best life. no cap. 🎀

✨ NAME ✨

addrconsole — set up a new remote console user 🫶

🌸 SYNOPSIS 🌸

addrconsole

that's it. that's the whole vibe. she takes zero arguments, she just wants to chat. 💅

🦋 DESCRIPTION 🦋

so like, real talk: this manual page is the quick lil' rundown of the addrconsole command. brief and cute, just how we like it. ✨

here's the tea on what addrconsole actually does — it sets up a new remote console user. and when I say sets up, I mean it does the whole glow-up, step by step:

  • it creates the user account 👑
  • it sets up the rconsole configuration links 🔗
  • it starts up the server for that port 🚀

and the way she works? it's an interactive script, bestie — it runs and then it asks you things. literally a whole conversation. it's gonna request:

  • a username 🍓
  • a serial port 🔌
  • and a password 🔒

so have those ready before you run it, or you're gonna be sitting there like 🙈. it's giving very much "answer me three questions and I'll build you a whole remote console user." iconic behaviour, honestly.

🌈 SEE ALSO 🌈

if you're obsessed (and you should be), go read her friends:

iykyk. the whole friend group is serving. 💜

💫 AUTHOR 💫

okay so credit where credit is due, because we always hype up the authors:

  • rtty was written by Paul Vixie <vixie@isc.org> 💖
  • the addrconsole script and this manual page were written by Jonathan McDowell <noodles@earth.li> for the Debian project (but may be used by others) 🫶

the fact that it's Debian-born but free for anyone to use? we love a generous king. periodt. 👑

and that's the whole page, bestie. go forth, set up that remote console user, and slay. 💅✨

this lil' manual page came from the System Manager's Manual, dated October 12, 2004 — ADDRCONSOLE(8), forever iconic, never expired. mwah. 😭💖

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