revoke(1)

revoke1

Revoke a character device

Usage

revoke file ...

Overview

The revoke program revokes the character devices using revoke(2). When used on a TTY, calls like read(2), write(2) and ioctl(2), will be aborted immediately, effectively causing login sessions to be terminated.

Releases

39 releases since FreeBSD 8.0-RELEASE; the text changed 25 times.

  1. 8.0
  2. 8.1
  3. 8.2
  4. 8.3
  5. 8.4
  6. 9.0
  7. 9.1
  8. 9.2
  9. 9.3
  10. 10.0
  11. 10.1
  12. 10.2
  13. 10.3
  14. 10.4
  15. 11.0
  16. 11.1
  17. 11.2
  18. 11.3
  19. 11.4
  20. 12.0
  21. 12.1
  22. 12.2
  23. 12.3
  24. 12.4
  25. 13.0–13.2
  26. 13.3–16.0

History

The revoke program first appeared in FreeBSD 8.0.

Authors

Ed Schouten ⟨[email protected]⟩

From base 16.0-CURRENT-20261027-61c70dc16a79 in FreeBSD 16.0-CURRENT (2026-10-27). Parsed by carta from the page's mdoc source.