NAME

       prayer-accountd — Prayer system account helper daemon

SYNOPSIS

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

DESCRIPTION

       prayer-accountd  is an auxilliary daemon that allows users to perform various tasks with respect to their
       UNIX system account:

       •   Change passwords

       •   Change their name

       •   Check filesystem quota

       Furthermore it can help users set up an (Exim-only) .forward file  for  Spam  filtering,  vacation  auto-
       replies etc.

       prayer-accountd can be installed on a separate host from the main Prayer services if necessary.  It needs
       to be able to run passwd(1), chfn(1), and quota(1) for the user, and access users' home directories.

       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.

       --enable-fork
               Fork subprocesses as requests come in. This is the default.

       --disable-fork
               Don't fork; process one request in at the time (debug mode).

FILES

       /etc/prayer/accountd.cf
               Default configuration file.

BUGS

       prayer-accountd is rather customized to the needs of the University of  Cambridge,  though  some  patches
       have  been  applied to the Debian package. System administrators should study the source code to see what
       this means.

AUTHORS

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

The Prayer Webmail Interface                      27 March 2011                               PRAYER-ACCOUNTD(8)