gbrowse_create_account(1)

gbrowse_create_account1

Creates an account for gbrowse

Usage

gbrowse_create_account [-pass password -fullname name -email address] user user GBrowse user name [-pass password] If a password is not provided on the command line, you will be prompted for it on standard input [-fullname name] User full name [-email address] User email

Overview

Creates a user account with the desired username and password. If the account already exists, then the password is reset. This script uses the "user_account_db" option in the currently installed GBrowse.conf configuration file to find the appropriate accounts database.
WARNING: This script should be run as the web server user using "sudo -u www-data $0". If it detects that it is not being run as this user, it will attempt to sudo itself for you.

Releases

Unchanged in 7 releases since Debian 7 (Wheezy).

  1. 7–13

Author

Olivier Sallou (olivier.sallou (at) irisa.fr) - Man page and packaging Lincoln Stein - GBrowse

From gbrowse 2.56+dfsg-12 in Debian 13 (Trixie). Parsed by carta from the page's man source.