NAME¶
grab-account - add new account synchronised to remote system
SYNOPSIS¶
grab-account local-user source
[remote-user]
DESCRIPTION¶
grab-account reconfigures sync-accounts to start synchronising a
specified local user (which may not yet exist) from a specified remote system,
and then invokes sync-accounts once to synchronise from that source.
/etc/sync-accounts/createuser should contain a
addhere line in the
appropriate source section (ie, after
host source). grab-account
adds a
user local-user [
remote=remote-user]
directive just before
addhere and runs
sync-accounts
source.
EXIT STATUS¶
- 0
- All went well.
- any other
- There were problems.
FILES¶
/etc/sync-accounts; See also
sync-accounts(8).
ENVIRONMENT¶
See
sync-accounts(8).
BUGS¶
There is no locking of
/etc/sync-accounts so do not invoke grab-account
from a script, or more than once at a time by hand. Do not edit
/etc/sync-accounts by hand and also simultaneously run grab-account.
The mechanism involving
addhere is suboptimal. This should be done with
an include feature in sync-accounts, so that grab-account does not have to
edit a configuration file that really belongs to the sysadmin.
AUTHOR¶
grab-account and this manpage are part of the
sync-accounts
package which was written by Ian Jackson <ian@chiark.greenend.org.uk>.
They are Copyright 1999-2000,2002 Ian Jackson
<ian@davenant.greenend.org.uk>, and Copyright 2000-2001 nCipher
Corporation Ltd.
The sync-accounts package is free software; you can redistribute it and/or
modify it under the terms of the GNU General Public License as published by
the Free Software Foundation; either version 3, or (at your option) any later
version.
This is distributed in the hope that it will be useful, but WITHOUT ANY
WARRANTY; without even the implied warranty of MERCHANTABILITY or FITNESS FOR
A PARTICULAR PURPOSE. See the GNU General Public License for more details.
You should have received a copy of the GNU General Public License along with
this program; if not, consult the Free Software Foundation's website at
www.fsf.org, or the GNU Project website at www.gnu.org.
SEE ALSO¶
sync-accounts(8),
sync-accounts(5),
passwd(5)