NAME¶

cpu - A tool for user and group administration

SYNOPSIS¶

cpu [OPTIONS]

DESCRIPTION¶

CPU is a tool for user administration, that was initially based on FreeBSD's pw(8). This tool will allow you to administer users and groups on several different backends currently including LDAP and flat files. Please see the website http://cpu.sourceforge.net for more information, or help improve the man page.

OPTIONS¶

There are two kinds of options; options for CPU and options for CPU modules. There are only four options for CPU, they are as follows:

-C configfile, --config configfile

The configuration file to be used by CPU. The options in this file are used for CPU modules.

-h, --help

Display help for CPU. If specified in conjunction with the -m option the help for that particular module is displayed.

-M method, --method=method

This is the method of administration. Current options are ldap or passwd (passwd is not yet working). This can be specified in the configuration file.

-V, --version

Display the version of the software.

SEE ALSO¶

cpu.conf(5) cpu-ldap(8)

AUTHORS¶

Blake Matheny <bmatheny@purdue.edu>

The current version of this software is always available at http://cpu.sourceforge.net

BUGS¶

To report a bug or problem, please e-mail:

cpu-users@lists.sourceforge.net

TODO¶

See TODO file that accompanied software. Please e-mail us with any additional suggestions.