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popauth

POPAUTH(1)							   User Commands							POPAUTH(1)

NAME

       popauth - manage pop3 authentication database

SYNOPSIS

       popauth [OPTION...]

DESCRIPTION

       GNU popauth -- manage pop3 authentication database

	      Actions are:

       -a, --add
	      add user

       -c, --create
	      create the DBM from a plaintext file

       -d, --delete
	      delete user's record

       -l, --list
	      list the contents of DBM file

       -m, --modify
	      modify user's record (change password)

	      Default action is:

	      For root: --list For a user: --modify --user <username>

	      Options are:

       --compatibility
	      backward compatibility mode

       -f, --file=FILE
	      read input from FILE (default stdin)

       -o, --output=FILE
	      direct output to file

       -p, --password=STRING
	      specify user's password

       -P, --permissions=PERM
	      force given permissions on the database

       -u, --user=USERNAME
	      specify user name

	      Common options

       --config-file=FILE, --rcfile=FILE
	      load this configuration file

       --config-help
	      show configuration file summary

       --config-lint, --rcfile-lint
	      check configuration file syntax and exit

       --config-verbose, --rcfile-verbose
	      verbosely log parsing of the configuration files

       --no-site-config, --no-site-rcfile
	      do not load site configuration file

       --no-user-config, --no-user-rcfile
	      do not load user configuration file

       --set=PARAM=VALUE
	      set configuration parameter

       --show-config-options
	      show compilation options

       -?, --help
	      give this help list

       --usage
	      give a short usage message

       -V, --version
	      print program version

       Mandatory or optional arguments to long options are also mandatory or optional for any corresponding short options.

REPORTING BUGS

       Report bugs to <bug-mailutils@gnu.org>.

COPYRIGHT

       Copyright (C) 2010 Free Software Foundation, inc.  License GPLv3+: GNU GPL version 3 or later <http://gnu.org/licenses/gpl.html>
       This is free software: you are free to change and redistribute it.  There is NO WARRANTY, to the extent permitted by law.

       Database formats: gdbm Default database location: /etc/apop.db

SEE ALSO

       The complete GNU mailutils documentation is maintained as a Texinfo manual. If the mailutils-doc package is installed, the command

	      info mailutils

       should give you access to the complete manual.
       You can also find this manual online in the GNU mailutils webpage:
       http://www.gnu.org/software/mailutils/manual/index.html.
       Please  note this manpage was automatically generated by the Debian mailutils packagers. Do not file bugs for its content to the GNU Mailu-
       tils upstream authors.

FSF
								     June 2012								POPAUTH(1)

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