The program used to gather account information from the user and create an account request. Depending on your local configuration, it may also cause the user account to be automatically created on the system. Special privileges are required to run pre-approve. It allocates global UIDs to users who do not have them and creates template passwd file entries. After a passwd file has been converted to global UID compliance, chownall can be used to change the UIDs on files throughout a system.
Files config Controls the operation of the new program.
The information in this file is used by the approve program.