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2 .TH GRAB\-ACCOUNT 8 "14th July 2002" "Greenend" "chiark utilities"
4 grab\-account \- add new account synchronised to remote system
6 .BI "grab\-account " local\-user " " source " [" remote\-user ]
9 reconfigures sync-accounts to start synchronising a specified local
10 user (which may not yet exist) from a specified remote system, and
11 then invokes sync-accounts once to synchronise from that source.
13 .B /etc/sync-accounts/createuser
16 line in the appropriate source section (ie, after
17 .BR host " \fIsource\fP)."
20 .BR " user" " \fIlocal\-user\fP [" remote= "\fIremote\-user\fP]"
25 .BR sync-accounts " \fIsource\fP."
34 .BR /etc/sync-accounts ;
36 .BR sync-accounts (8).
39 .BR sync-accounts (8).
41 There is no locking of
43 so do not invoke grab-account from a script, or more than once at a
44 time by hand. Do not edit /etc/sync-accounts by hand and also
45 simultaneously run grab-account.
47 The mechanism involving
49 is suboptimal. This should be done with an include feature in
50 sync-accounts, so that grab-account does not have to edit a
51 configuration file that really belongs to the sysadmin.
54 and this manpage are part of the
56 package which was written by Ian Jackson <ian@chiark.greenend.org.uk>.
57 They are Copyright 1999-2000,2002 Ian Jackson
58 <ian@davenant.greenend.org.uk>, and Copyright 2000-2001 nCipher
61 The sync-accounts package is free software; you can redistribute it
62 and/or modify it under the terms of the GNU General Public License as
63 published by the Free Software Foundation; either version 3, or (at
64 your option) any later version.
66 This is distributed in the hope that it will be useful, but WITHOUT ANY
67 WARRANTY; without even the implied warranty of MERCHANTABILITY or FITNESS
68 FOR A PARTICULAR PURPOSE. See the GNU General Public License for more
71 You should have received a copy of the GNU General Public License along
72 with this program; if not, consult the Free Software Foundation's
73 website at www.fsf.org, or the GNU Project website at www.gnu.org.
75 .BR sync-accounts "(8), "
76 .BR sync-accounts "(5), "