Section: chiark utilities (8)Updated: 14th July 2002Local indexUp
NAME
grab-account - add new account synchronised to remote system
SYNOPSIS
grab-account local-usersource [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
hostsource).
grab-account adds a
userlocal-user [remote=remote-user]
directive just before
addhere
and runs
sync-accountssource.
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.