gspl-spuconv - dump out GNUspool user permissions to file

# NAME

gspl-spuconv - dump out GNUspool user permissions to file

# SYNOPSIS

gspl-spuconv [ -D dir ] [ -v n ] [ -e n ] [ -s ] [ -f ] user file outfile

# DESCRIPTION

gspl-spuconv considers a GNUspool spool directory, by default the current directory, takes the user file, which is usually spufile or spufile0.0, and generates a shell script file outfile, which if executed, would recreate the GNUspool users with the same options.

# OPTIONS

-D directory

  specifies the source directory for the users and user file. It can be specified as `$SPOOLDIR` or `${SPOOLDIR-/var/spool/gnuspool}` etc and the environment and/or gnuspool.conf will be interrogated to interpolate the value of the environment variable given.

  If you use this, don't forget to put single quotes around it thus:

       gspl-spuconv -D '${SPOOLDIR-/var/spool/gnuspool}' ...

  otherwise the shell will try to interpret the $ construct and not gspl-spuconv.

-e n

  Tolerate n errors of the kinds denoted by the other options before giving up trying to convert the file.

-s

  Ignore file size errors in the saved user file (up to the number of total errors given by the -e option.

-f

  Ignore format errors (invalid form types etc) in the saved user file.

# SEE ALSO

gspl-cjlist(8), gspl-cplist(8), gspl-setspdir(8).

# COPYRIGHT

Copyright (c) 2009 Free Software Foundation, Inc. This is free software. You may redistribute copies of it under the terms of the GNU General Public License <http://www.gnu.org/licenses/gpl.html>. There is NO WARRANTY, to the extent permitted by law.

# AUTHOR

John M Collins, Xi Software Ltd.