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pam_tacplus(8) -- TACACS+ authentication PAM module
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The pam_tacplus module provides authentication services based upon the TACACS+ protocol for the PAM (Pluggable Authentication Module) framework. The pam_tacplus module accepts these optional parameter... |
pam_unix(8) -- UNIX PAM module
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The UNIX authentication service module for PAM, pam_unix provides functionality for two PAM categories: authentication and account management. In terms of the module-type parameter, they are the ``aut... |
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pccardc(8) -- PC-CARD (PCMCIA) management and monitoring tool
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The pccardc utility controls PC-CARD slots and configures and displays information about PCMCIA cards. It understands the following subcommands: beep Set beep type dumpcis Print card CIS(s) dumpcisfil... |
pccardd(8) -- PC-CARD (PCMCIA) management daemon
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The pccardd utility is normally started at boot time, and manages the insertion and removal of PC-CARD cards. When started, pccardd will read the configuration file (default name /etc/defaults/pccard.... |
pciconf(8) -- diagnostic utility for the PCI bus
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The pciconf utility provides a command line interface to functionality provided by the pci(4) ioctl(2) interface. As such, it is only available to users with write access to /dev/pci, normally only th... |
periodic(8) -- run periodic system functions
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The periodic utility is intended to be called by cron(8) to execute shell scripts located in the specified directory. One or more of the following arguments must be specified: daily Perform the standa... |
picobsd(8) -- floppy disk based FreeBSD system
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The picobsd utility is a script which produces a minimal implementation of FreeBSD (historically called PicoBSD) which typically fits on one floppy disk, or can be downloaded as a single image file fr... |
ping(8) -- send ICMP ECHO_REQUEST packets to network hosts
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The ping utility uses the ICMP protocol's mandatory ECHO_REQUEST datagram to elicit an ICMP ECHO_RESPONSE from a host or gateway. ECHO_REQUEST datagrams (``pings'') have an IP and ICMP header, foll... |
ping6(8) -- send ICMPv6 ECHO_REQUEST packets to network hosts
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The ping6 command uses the ICMPv6 protocol's mandatory ICMP6_ECHO_REQUEST datagram to elicit an ICMP6_ECHO_REPLY from a host or gateway. ICMP6_ECHO_REQUEST datagrams (``pings'') have an IPv6 header... |
pnpinfo(8) -- reports information about Plug-n-Play ISA devices
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pnpinfo reports information about Plug-n-Play ISA devices. Some of the information, such as the vendor ID, serial number, I/O ports, IRQ, etc. are useful when configuring a kernel with ISA PnP devices... |
ppp(8) -- Point to Point Protocol (a.k.a. user-ppp)
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This is a user process PPP software package. Normally, PPP is implemented as a part of the kernel (e.g., as managed by pppd(8)) and it's thus somewhat hard to debug and/or modify its behaviour. Howev... |
pppctl(8) -- PPP control program
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This utility provides command line control of the ppp(8) daemon. Its primary use is to facilitate simple scripts that control a running daemon. The pppctl utility is passed at least one argument, spec... |
pppd(8) -- Point to Point Protocol daemon
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The Point-to-Point Protocol (PPP) provides a method for transmitting datagrams over serial point-to-point links. PPP is composed of three parts: a method for encapsulating datagrams over serial links,... |
pppoed(8) -- handle incoming PPP over Ethernet connections
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The pppoed utility listens to the given interface for PPP over Ethernet (PPPoE) service request packets, and actions them by negotiating a session then invoking a ppp(8) program. The negotiation is im... |
pppstats(8) -- print PPP statistics
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The pppstats utility reports PPP-related statistics at regular intervals for the specified PPP interface. If the interface is unspecified, it will default to ppp0. The display is split horizontally in... |