.\" Hey, EMACS: -*- nroff -*- .\" First parameter, NAME, should be all caps .\" Second parameter, SECTION, should be 1-8, maybe w/ subsection .\" other parameters are allowed: see man(7), man(1) .TH ADDRCONSOLE 8 "October 12, 2004" .\" Please adjust this date whenever revising the manpage. .\" .\" Some roff macros, for reference: .\" .nh disable hyphenation .\" .hy enable hyphenation .\" .ad l left justify .\" .ad b justify to both left and right margins .\" .nf disable filling .\" .fi enable filling .\" .br insert line break .\" .sp insert n+1 empty lines .\" for manpage-specific macros, see man(7) .SH NAME addrconsole \- Setup a new remote console user .SH SYNOPSIS .B addrconsole .SH DESCRIPTION This manual page documents briefly the .B addrconsole command. .PP .\" TeX users may be more comfortable with the \fB\fP and .\" \fI\fP escape sequences to invode bold face and italics, .\" respectively. \fBaddrconsole\fP sets up a new remote console user; it creates the user account, sets up the rconsole configuration links and starts up the server for that port. It runs as an interactive script and requests a username, serial port and password. .SH SEE ALSO .BR rconsole (1), .BR ttysrv (8), .BR delrconsole (8). .SH AUTHOR rtty was written by Paul Vixie . The addrconsole script and this manual page were written by Jonathan McDowell for the Debian project (but may be used by others).