qmail-pw2u(8)         Maintenance Procedures        qmail-pw2u(8)



NAME
     qmail-pw2u - build address assignments from a passwd file

SYNOPSIS
     qmail-pw2u [ -ohHuUC ] [ -cchar ]

DESCRIPTION
     qmail-pw2u reads a V7-format passwd file from standard input
     and prints a qmail-users-format assignment file.

     A V7-format passwd file is a series of lines.  Each line has
     the format

        user:password:uid:gid:gecos:home:shell

     where  user  is an account name, uid and gid are the user id
     and group id of that account, and home is the account's home
     directory.  password, gecos, and shell are ignored by qmail-
     pw2u.

     If   you    put    the    output    of    qmail-pw2u    into
     /var/qmail/users/assign,  and  then  run  qmail-newu, qmail-
     lspawn will obey  the  assignments  printed  by  qmail-pw2u.
     WARNING:  After  changing  any  users,  uids,  gids, or home
     directories in your passwd file, you must run qmail-pw2u and
     qmail-newu  again  if  you  want  qmail-lspawn  to  see  the
     changes.

RULES
     By default, qmail-pw2u follows  the  same  rules  as  qmail-
     getpw.   It skips user if (1) uid is zero, (2) home does not
     exist, (3) user does not own  home,  or  (4)  user  contains
     uppercase  letters.   It then gives each remaining user con-
     trol over the basic user address and all  addresses  of  the
     form  user-anything.   A catch-all user, alias, controls all
     other addresses.

     You  may  change  these  rules  by  setting  up   files   in
     /var/qmail/users:

     include
          Allowed  users,  one  per line.  If include exists, and
          user is not listed in include, user is ignored.

     exclude
          Ignored users, one per line.  If  exclude  exists,  and
          user is listed in exclude, user is ignored.

     mailnames
          Replacement names for users.  Each line has the form

             user:mailname1:mailname2:...



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          The addresses mailname1 and mailname1-ext and mailname2
          and so on will be delivered to user.

          WARNING: The addresses user and user-ext  will  not  be
          delivered  to  user unless user is listed as one of the
          mailnames.

          A line in mailnames is silently  ignored  if  the  user
          does not exist.

     subusers
          Extra addresses.  Each line has the form

             sub:user:pre:

          sub  will  be handled by home/.qmail-pre, where home is
          user's home  directory;  sub-ext  will  be  handled  by
          home/.qmail-pre-ext.

     append
          Extra  assignments,  printed at the end of qmail-pw2u's
          output.

OPTIONS
     -o   (Default.)  Skip user if home does not exist (or is not
          visible to qmail-pw2u).  Skip user if home is not owned
          by user.

     -h   Stop if home does not exist.  This  is  appropriate  if
          every  user is supposed to have a home directory.  Skip
          user if home is not owned by user.

     -H   Do not check the existence or ownership of home.

     -U   (Default.)  Skip user if there are any  uppercase  let-
          ters in user.

     -u   Allow uppercase letters in user.

     -cchar
          Use char as the user-extension delimiter in place of -.

     -C   Disable the user-extension mechanism.

SEE ALSO
     qmail-users(5),   qmail-lspawn(8),   qmail-newu(8),   qmail-
     getpw(8)








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