gspl-uchange - update or change user permissions

# NAME

gspl-uchange - update or change user permissions

# SYNOPSIS

gspl-uchange [ -options ] [ users ]

# DESCRIPTION

gspl-uchange may be used to update the user permissions file giving the user profiles of various users and the operations which they may be permitted to perform within the GNUspool system, together with the default permissions which are assigned by default to new GNUspool users.

Further options allow for a "password dump" file to be maintained. This is for the benefit of NIS-type environments where reading through most of the password database can take an unacceptably long time, the user name and userid hash table is maintained in a file and updated as necessary.

The invoking user must have edit admin file permission.

# OPTIONS

The environment variable on which options are supplied is `GSPL-UCHANGE` and the environment variable to specify the help file is `SPRESTCONF`.

-? or +explain

  causes a summary of the other options to be displayed without taking further action.

-A or +copy-defaults

  copy the default profile to all users before setting other permissions on the named users (with the -u option) or after setting the defaults (with the -D option).

  The privileges of the invoking user are not changed by this operation.

-c classcode or +class classcode

  set the class code of the user(s) as specified by the argument.

-D or +set-defaults

  indicate that the other options are to apply to the default profile for new users.

-d num or +default-priority num

  set the default job priority to num, which must be between 1 and 255.

-F pattern or +form-allowed pattern

  set the permitted form types to match pattern.

-f formtype or +default-form formtype

  set the default form type to formtype.

-l num or +min-priority num

  set the minimum job priority to num, which must be between 1 and 255.

-m num or +max-priority num

  set the maximum job priority to num, which must be between 1 and 255.

-N or +no-rebuild

  cancel the -R option.

-n num or +max-copies num

  set the maximum number of copies to num, which must be between 1 and 255.

-O pattern or +ptr-allowed pattern

  set the permitted printers to match pattern.

-o printer or +default-ptr printer

  set the default printer to printer.

-p privileges or +privileges privileges

  set the privileges of the user(s) as specified by the argument.

-R or +rebuild-file

  rebuild the user permissions file spufile0 incorporating any changes in the password list.

-s or +no-copy-defaults

  cancel the effect of the -A option

-u or +set-users

  indicate that the other options are to apply to the users specified on the rest of the command line.

-X or +dump-passwd

  dump out the hash table of the password file to avoid re-reading the password file within the other programs.

-Y or +default-passwd

  default handling of password hash file dump - rebuild if it is already present and -R specified, otherwise not.

-Z or +kill-dump-passwd

  delete any existing dumped password hash file.

+freeze-current

  Save all the current options in a .gnuspool file in the current directory.

+freeze-home

  Save all the current options in a .gnuspool file in the user's home directory.

# Users or default

In one operation gspl-uchange either adjusts the default permissions, to be applied to new users, if -D is specified, or specified users, if nothing or -u is specified. So first set the required defaults:

            gspl-uchange -D -n 20 -p Form,Prinq,Hgo,Cdef -A

Then set named users

            gspl-uchange -p ALL jmc root spooler

# Rebuilding the user control file

After adding new users to the system, you should rebuild the user control file by running

            gspl-uchange -R

On a system with a large number of users, this can take a long time, so the previous method of adding new users as they were encountered meant that various hold-ups occurred in standard utilities or the scheduler, whichever was the first to "notice" the changes, which might, in the event, be half-complete.

We suggest that this command be added to the "add new user" procedure for your installation.

# Dumping the password file

When any of the GNUspool programs which may require to map numeric user ids to names and vice versa start, one of the first operations is to build the appropriate hash tables. This may take some time if there are a large number of user names, especially if NIS (a.k.a. yellow pages) is in use.

A short cut is to dump out the password file into a hash table file, by default pwdump0, which may be quickly read in by the relevant programs instead of rebuilding the hash table each time.

You may opt to create the dumped password file by running

            gspl-uchange -X

This should only be done when all GNUspool programs are stopped.

Afterwards, each time the user control file is rebuilt using the -R option (or equivalents in other programs such as gspl-user(1)), this file will also be rebuilt. -X does not have to be specified again.

If you ever decide you want to dispense with this file, run gspl-uchange with the -Z option.

For completeness, the -Y option is provided to cancel -X or -Z in case they are provided in the environment or a .gnuspool file, an extremely bad idea.

## Privileges

The following may be specified as the argument to -p, as one or more (comma-separated) of the following codes, optionally preceded by a minus to turn off the corresponding privilege. These codes are the same as those displayed by gspl-ulist(1).

Gspl-uchange disregards the case of the codes entered.

Adm

  edit admin file

Stp

  stop scheduler

Form

  select forms other than restriction pattern

Otherp

  select printers other than restriction pattern

Cpri

  change priority once queued

Otherj

  edit other users' jobs.

Prinq

  select printer list

Hgo

  stop and start printers

Anyp

  select any priority once queued

Cdef

  change own default priority within range

Addp

  add and delete printers

Cover

  override class

Unq

  unqueue jobs

Votj

  view (but not change) other users' jobs

Remj

  access remote jobs

Remp

  access remote printers

Accessj

  access non-displayed job attributes

Freeze

  freeze parameters from display

`ALL` may be used to denote all of the permissions. For example:

            -p Otherj,Otherp
            -p ALL,-Adm

Notice how `ALL` is set first and then `Adm` taken away in the second example.

A hexadecimal value is also accepted, but this is intended only for the benefit of the installation routines.

# FILES

~/.gnuspool configuration file (home directory)

.gnuspool configuration file (current directory)

rest.help message file

pwdump0 dumped password hash file

spufile0 user permissions file

# ENVIRONMENT

GSPL_UCHANGE

  space-separated options to override defaults.

SPRESTCONF

  location of alternative help file.

# SEE ALSO

gspl-ulist(1), gspl-user(1), `spsyntax(5)`, gnuspool.conf(5), gnuspool.hosts(5).

# DIAGNOSTICS

Various diagnostics are read and printed as required from the message file, by default rest.help.

# 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.