GRAB-ACCOUNT(8)

✨ GRAB-ACCOUNT(8) ✨

chiark utilities 🎀 okay so bestie, this is the manual page for grab-account and it's lowkey iconic, let's get into it 💅

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🌸 NAME 🌸

grab-account — add a new account, but make it ✨synchronised✨ to a remote system 🦋

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💖 SYNOPSIS 💖

grab-account local-user source [remote-user]

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🫶 DESCRIPTION 🫶

okay so here's the tea, bestie ☕ — grab-account reconfigures sync-accounts so it starts synchronising a specified local user (which may not even exist yet, no biggie 💀) from a specified remote system. then it invokes sync-accounts once to actually sync from that source. one and done. periodt. 💅

/etc/sync-accounts/createuser should contain a addhere line in the appropriate source section — that means after host source, iykyk 👑

and what does grab-account do with that? it adds this directive:

user local-user [remote=remote-user]

just before addhere 🌟 and then it runs sync-accounts source. slay.

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🔥 EXIT STATUS 🔥

• 0 — All went well. ate and left no crumbs 👑✨
• any other — There were problems. 💀 not the vibe.

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🎀 FILES 🎀

• /etc/sync-accounts — the config file in question 🗂️ See also sync-accounts(8).

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🌈 ENVIRONMENT 🌈

See sync-accounts(8). (yes bestie, that's the whole section, it's giving ✨delegation✨ 🦋)

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😭 BUGS 😭

⚠️ There is no locking of /etc/sync-accounts — so do not invoke grab-account from a script, and do not run it more than once at a time by hand. seriously. 🙈 Also: do not edit /etc/sync-accounts by hand and simultaneously run grab-account. pick a lane bestie 💅

The whole mechanism involving addhere is suboptimal 😔. This should be done with an include feature in sync-accounts, so that grab-account doesn't have to edit a configuration file that really belongs to the sysadmin. (respect the sysadmin's stuff fr fr 🫶)

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👑 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. 🌈

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⭐ SEE ALSO ⭐

• sync-accounts(8)
• sync-accounts(5)
• passwd(5)

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Greenend · 14th July 2002 — mwah, that's the whole page bestie, go sync some accounts responsibly 💖✨🎀🦋💅🫶