NAME¶
prayer-accountd —
Prayer system account
helper daemon
SYNOPSIS¶
prayer-accountd |
[--config-file
file]
[[--config-option
name=value]
...]
[--enable-fork |
--disable-fork] |
DESCRIPTION¶
prayer-accountd is an auxilliary daemon that allows users to
perform various tasks with respect to their UNIX system account:
- Change passwords
- Change their name
- Check filesystem quota
Furthermore it can help users set up an (
Exim-only)
.forward file for Spam filtering, vacation auto-replies etc.
prayer-accountd can be installed on a separate host from the
main Prayer services if necessary. It needs to be able to run
passwd(1),
chfn(1), and
quota(1) for the user, and access users' home directories.
prayer-accountd accepts the following command-line options:
- --config-file
file
- Reads configuration from file instead
of the default.
- --config-option
name=value
- Sets (overrides) the configuration option
name to
value. Any number of options can be specified in
this manner.
- --enable-fork
- Fork subprocesses as requests come in. This is the
default.
- --disable-fork
- Don't fork; process one request in at the time (debug
mode).
FILES¶
- /etc/prayer/accountd.cf
- Default configuration file.
BUGS¶
prayer-accountd is rather customized to the needs of the
University of Cambridge, though some patches have been applied to the Debian
package. System administrators should study the source code to see what this
means.
AUTHORS¶
This introductory manual page was put together for Debian by
Magnus Holmgren <holmgren@debian.org>.