DACS_GROUP(8)

Name
dacs_group - DACS group administration

Synopsis

dacs_group [dacsoptions[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 dacs_admin(8)[2] web service.

  Web Service Arguments

Besides the standard CGI arguments[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 (groups.dtd[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.

SEE ALSO

dacs(1)[5], dacs.groups(5)[6], regex(3)[7]

AUTHOR

Distributed Systems Software (www.dss.ca[8])

COPYING

Copyright © 2003-2014 Distributed Systems Software. See the LICENSE[9] file that accompanies the distribution for licensing information.

Notes

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

2.  dacs_admin(8)
    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.  dacs.groups(5)
    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+10.1-RELEASE&format=html

8.  www.dss.ca
    http://www.dss.ca

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