---
name: "addrconsole"
section: "8"
platform: "linux"
package: "remote-tty"
version: "4.0-13.1+b1"
release: "Debian 12 (Bookworm)"
platforms: ["linux"]
url: "https://new.carta.tech/addrconsole"
---

# addrconsole(8)

Setup a new remote console user

## NAME

addrconsole - Setup a new remote console user

## SYNOPSIS

**addrconsole**

## DESCRIPTION

This manual page documents briefly the **addrconsole** command.

**addrconsole** 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.

## SEE ALSO

[**rconsole**(1)](/rconsole/1.md), [**ttysrv**(8)](/ttysrv/8.md), [**delrconsole**(8)](/delrconsole/8.md).

## AUTHOR

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).