Safeguard Reference Manual (G06.24+, H06.03+ )

User Alias Security Commands

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ADD ALIAS Command

ADD ALIAS adds a user alias to the system and creates a Safeguard authentication

record for that alias. Once a new alias is added to the system for a user, the user can

log on to the system with that alias.

To execute the ADD ALIAS command, you must have the authority both to add the

underlying user ID and to alter the authentication record for that user ID. For more

information, see Who Can Manage User Aliases on page 6-1.

You can use the SET ALIAS command to set default values for the user attributes and

then use ADD ALIAS to identify the user alias record to which the default values are to

be assigned. You can also specify attribute values in your ADD ALIAS command. The

current default values are used for any attributes left unspecified.

ALIAS

identifies ALIAS as the object class of the ADD command. Omit it if ALIAS is the

assumed class. (For more information about assumed commands, see the

ASSUME Command on page 4-3.)

alias

is the alias name to be added to the system. The name must be unique within the

local system. alias is a case-sensitive text string that can be up to 32

alphanumeric characters in length. In addition to alphabetic and numeric

characters, the characters period (.), hyphen (-), and underscore (_) are permitted

within the text string. The first character of an alias name must be alphabetic or

numeric.

An alias name cannot match an existing user name when the alias is converted to

uppercase letters. For example, the alias Prog3.SueB is not valid if a user name

PROG3.SUEB already exists.

group-name.member-name

is the user name of the user with which this alias is to be associated. The group-

name.member-name must already exist.

group-name and member-name can not contain wild-card characters.

ADD ALIAS alias [ , ]

{ group-name.member-name | group-num,member-num }

[ LIKE user | user-attribute ]

[ , user-attribute ] ...