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| 131 | magnus | 1 | .Dd 27 March 2011 |
| 2 | .Os "The Prayer Webmail Interface" |
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| 3 | .ds volume-operating-system |
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| 4 | .Dt PRAYER-ACCOUNTD 8 |
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| 5 | .Sh NAME |
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| 6 | .Nm prayer-accountd |
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| 7 | .Nd Prayer system account helper daemon |
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| 8 | .Sh SYNOPSIS |
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| 9 | .Nm |
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| 10 | .Oo Fl -config-file |
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| 11 | .Ar file Oc |
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| 12 | .Oo Oo Fl -config-option |
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| 13 | .Ar name Ns = Ns Ar value Oc |
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| 14 | .Ar ... Oc |
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| 15 | .Op Fl -enable-fork | -disable-fork |
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| 16 | . |
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| 17 | .Sh DESCRIPTION |
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| 18 | .Nm |
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| 19 | is an auxilliary daemon that allows users to perform various tasks |
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| 20 | with respect to their UNIX system account: |
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| 21 | .Bl -bullet |
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| 22 | .It |
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| 23 | Change passwords |
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| 24 | .It |
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| 25 | Change their name |
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| 26 | .It |
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| 27 | Check filesystem quota |
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| 28 | .El |
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| 29 | .Pp |
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| 30 | Furthermore it can help users set up an |
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| 31 | .Sy ( Exim-only ) |
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| 32 | .Pa .forward |
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| 33 | file for Spam filtering, vacation auto-replies etc. |
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| 34 | .Pp |
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| 35 | .Nm |
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| 36 | can be installed on a separate host from the main Prayer services if necessary. |
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| 37 | It needs to be able to run |
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| 38 | .Xr passwd 1 , |
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| 39 | .Xr chfn 1 , |
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| 40 | and |
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| 41 | .Xr quota 1 |
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| 42 | for the user, and access users' home directories. |
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| 43 | .Pp |
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| 44 | .Nm |
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| 45 | accepts the following command-line options: |
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| 46 | .Bl -tag -width indent |
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| 47 | .It Fl -config-file Ar file |
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| 48 | Reads configuration from |
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| 49 | .Ar file |
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| 50 | instead of the default. |
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| 51 | .It Fl -config-option Ar name Ns = Ns Ar value |
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| 52 | Sets (overrides) the configuration option |
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| 53 | .Ar name No to Ar value . |
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| 54 | Any number of options can be specified in this manner. |
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| 55 | .It Fl -enable-fork |
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| 56 | Fork subprocesses as requests come in. This is the default. |
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| 57 | .It Fl -disable-fork |
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| 58 | Don't fork; process one request in at the time (debug mode). |
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| 59 | . |
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| 60 | .Sh FILES |
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| 61 | . |
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| 62 | .Bl -tag -compact |
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| 63 | .It Pa /etc/prayer/accountd.cf |
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| 64 | Default configuration file. |
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| 65 | . |
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| 66 | .Sh BUGS |
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| 67 | .Nm |
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| 68 | is rather customized to the needs of the University of Cambridge, |
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| 69 | though some patches have been applied to the Debian package. System |
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| 70 | administrators should study the source code to see what this means. |
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| 71 | . |
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| 72 | .Sh AUTHORS |
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| 73 | . |
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| 74 | This introductory manual page was put together for Debian by |
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| 75 | .An -nosplit |
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| 76 | .An "Magnus Holmgren" <holmgren@debian.org> . |