man dacs_group (8): DACS group administration

dacs_group(8) DACS group administration

SYNOPSIS

dacs_group [m[blue]dacsoptionsm[][1]]

DESCRIPTION

This web service is part of the DACS suite.

The dacs_group web service displays DACS group definitions and membership and performs administrative functions on them.

Note

This web service may eventually be replaced by the m[blue]dacs_admin(8)m[][2] web service.

Web Service Arguments

Besides the m[blue]standard CGI argumentsm[][3], dacs_group understands the following CGI arguments:

OPERATION

This argument is required and selects one of the following functions. Additional arguments, if any, are function-dependent.

: • SHOW_GROUP_MEMBERSHIP
Arguments: GROUP_NAME, JURISDICTION (optional)

: • LIST_GROUPS
Arguments: JURISDICTION

: • SHOW_GROUP_DEFINITION
Arguments: GROUP_NAME, JURISDICTION (optional)

: • SHOW_ROLES
Display the roles associated with the caller.

: • TEST_GROUP_MEMBERSHIP
Test whether the caller is in the group specified by GROUP.

: • LIST_GROUP_MEMBERSHIP
Show which groups user MEMBER_NAME belongs to, as known by the receiving jurisdiction. MATCH_JURISDICTION (optional) can be set to limit testing to those groups defined by the given jurisdiction. MATCH_GROUP_NAME (optional) can be set to a regular expressions, applied to each known group name from any jurisdiction, to limit testing to those groups that match the given regex.

: • CREATE_GROUP
Arguments: GROUP_NAME, GROUP_TYPE

: • DELETE_GROUP
Arguments: GROUP_NAME, MEMBER_NAME

: • ADD_GROUP_MEMBER
Arguments: GROUP_NAME, MEMBER_NAME, MEMBER_TYPE, DACS

: • DELETE_GROUP_MEMBER
Arguments: GROUP_NAME, MEMBER_NAME

: • PURGE_GROUP
Delete the specified cached group definition. JURISDICTION, GROUP_NAME

: • CHANGE_GROUP_DEFINITION
Arguments: GROUP_NAME, NEW_GROUP_NAME

: • RECEIVE_GROUP_DEFINITION
The jurisdiction receiving the request is being asked to cache one or more group definitions, passed as a groups element (m[blue]groups.dtdm[][4]) that is the value of GROUPS.

: • SEND_GROUP_DEFINITION
Reply with one or more group definitions (master or cached copies). GROUP_NAME_LIST is a comma-separated list of group names.

: • APPLY_DELTAS

DIAGNOSTICS

The program exits 0 if everything was fine, 1 if an error occurred.

AUTHOR

Distributed Systems Software (m[blue]www.dss.cam[][8])

COPYING

Copyright2003-2013 Distributed Systems Software. See the m[blue]LICENSEm[][9] file that accompanies the distribution for licensing information.

NOTES

1.

dacsoptions

: http://dacs.dss.ca/man/dacs.1.html#dacsoptions

2.

: http://dacs.dss.ca/man/dacs_admin.8.html

3.

standard CGI arguments

: http://dacs.dss.ca/man/dacs.services.8.html#standard_cgi_args

4.

groups.dtd

: http://dacs.dss.ca/man/../dtd-xsd/groups.dtd

5.

dacs(1)

: http://dacs.dss.ca/man/dacs.1.html

6.

: http://dacs.dss.ca/man/dacs.groups.5.html

7.

regex(3)

: http://www.freebsd.org/cgi/man.cgi?query=regex&apropos=0&sektion=3&manpath=FreeBSD+9.1-RELEASE&format=html

8.

: http://www.dss.ca

9.

LICENSE

: http://dacs.dss.ca/man/../misc/LICENSE

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