auth

Overview

auth is the password gate built into an authorized lil-terminal core. Before you can work with the terminal, you must sign in; after a successful sign-in the input opens without a separate success message. This is different from a website user account or application login.

How to use this safely

Use auth -p to change the terminal password from an authorized session. Use auth -e or exit to end terminal authorization. Password prompts are handled by the interface; never paste a real password into a command example or terminal history. If a password is guessed incorrectly several times, auth pauses new attempts. The default policy permits three errors per round, then locks for 5 minutes; another round leads to 25 minutes, then 125. After nine failed attempts in total, the configured @kill action may be triggered. Successful authorization clears the recorded failures. An authorized user can adjust the policy with -a (errors per round), -d (base delay in minutes) and -k (total failures before @kill). Set -k 0 only if you knowingly want to disable that action. Setting the policy resets failure counters, and large values can make lockouts impractical. Check recovery access before changing protection on a live installation.

Syntax

auth [-p|-e] [-a <attempts>] [-d <minutes>] [-k <attempts>]

Reference

Practical use and safety

Use auth -p to change the terminal password from an authorized session. Use auth -e or exit to end terminal authorization. Password prompts are handled by the interface; never paste a real password into a command example or terminal history.

If a password is guessed incorrectly several times, auth pauses new attempts. The default policy permits three errors per round, then locks for 5 minutes; another round leads to 25 minutes, then 125. After nine failed attempts in total, the configured @kill action may be triggered. Successful authorization clears the recorded failures.

An authorized user can adjust the policy with -a (errors per round), -d (base delay in minutes) and -k (total failures before @kill). Set -k 0 only if you knowingly want to disable that action. Setting the policy resets failure counters, and large values can make lockouts impractical. Check recovery access before changing protection on a live installation.

auth belongs to the authorized Core and is not installed as a Base or Minimum module.

Install and manage

Install the current compatible version. Choose Base for the complete feature set or Minimum for the reduced package; use upgrade to update a module that is already installed.

Base and Minimum are two packages of the same current module release, not separate command versions.

Built into the core

This command is part of the selected lil-terminal core and is not installed as an ordinary extension.

Examples

Examples are copyable command lines, not actions executed by this website. Review paths, permissions and destructive flags before running them on a real project.

Password prompt opens in the terminal; no password appears in output.

Password-change prompt opens; enter the new password in the protected interface.

Auth policy: attempts 3, delay 5 min, kill 9

Auth policy: attempts 3, delay 5 min, kill 9

Auth policy: attempts 3, delay 5 min, kill 9

Auth policy: attempts 3, delay 5 min, kill 9

Auth policy: attempts 3, delay 5 min, kill off

Authorization ends and the terminal reloads.

Authorization ends and the terminal reloads.

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Auth policy: attempts 4, delay 2 min, kill 9

Auth policy: attempts 4, delay 2 min, kill 12

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