PRAYER-ACCOUNTD(8)

📦 version 1.3.5-dfsg1, in ubuntu jammy

✨ NAME ✨

prayer-accountd — it's the Prayer system account helper daemon, bestie 💅

🎀 SYNOPSIS 🎀

prayer-accountd [--config-file file] [[--config-option name=value] ...]
                [--enable-fork | --disable-fork]

🦋 DESCRIPTION 🦋

okay so, prayer-accountd is this little auxiliary daemon that lets your users do stuff with their UNIX system account, and honestly? it's giving helpful. 🫶

Here's the vibe — it can:

  • Change passwords
  • Change their name
  • Check filesystem quota

And on top of that, it can help users set up an (Exim-only) .forward file for Spam filtering, vacation auto-replies etc. no cap ✨

Also important: prayer-accountd can be installed on a separate host from the main Prayer services if necessary. For that to work it needs to be able to run passwd(1), chfn(1), and quota(1) for the user, and it needs access to users' home directories. periodt. 🔥

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, so go off, stack them all 💅
  • --enable-fork — Fork subprocesses as requests come in. This is the default, so if you did nothing, congrats, this is already you. ✨
  • --disable-fork — Don't fork; process one request in at the time (debug mode). 🐌 lowkey one-at-a-time energy, but it's debug mode so that's the point

🌸 FILES 🌸

  • /etc/prayer/accountd.cf — the default configuration file, iykyk 💜

💀 BUGS 💀

ngl, prayer-accountd is rather customized to the needs of the University of Cambridge, though some patches have been applied to the Debian package. So like… system administrators should study the source code to see what this means. fr fr, read the source, bestie, it's the only way to actually know 😭

🧚 AUTHORS 🧚

This introductory manual page was put together for Debian by Magnus Holmgren <holmgren@debian.org> 🫶

and that's the whole page, bestie — brought to you by The Prayer Webmail Interface 💖, dated 27 March 2011, filed under PRAYER-ACCOUNTD(8). slay, go change some passwords responsibly 👑🌈

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