Safeguard User's Guide (G06.24+, H06.03+)

Safeguard User’s Guide—422089-009
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Obtaining User and Alias
Information
As a general user, you can obtain security information about your disk files,
subvolumes, and processes, as well as information about your own user authentication
record. As discussed in previous sections of this manual, you use the SHOW
command to display default security attributes for a session and the INFO command to
display current security attributes for an existing file, subvolume, or process.
This section introduces the INFO USER command, which allows you to view the
security attributes in your user authentication record. You can examine these
attributes, but you cannot change them. Because your user authentication record is
owned by a privileged user, only that individual can change the security attributes.
If any aliases have been defined for your ID, you can also use the INFO ALIAS
command to display the attributes of an alias authentication record.
About Your User Authentication Record
Your user authentication record contains important information about the status of your
password and your user ID. With the INFO USER command, you can display the
attributes of your user authentication record and determine:
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The primary and secondary owners of the record.
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The expiration date, if any, for your user ID.
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How often you must change your password.
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The expiration date, if any, for your password.
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The date when you are allowed to change your password.
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If you have a grace period for changing your password after expiration.
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Your Guardian default subvolume.
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The Guardian default security string for disk files that you create.
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The file-sharing groups to which you belong.
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If any aliases are defined for your user ID.
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If Safeguard default protection is defined for disk files that you create.
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The last logon time. If this time is not consistent with the last time you logged on,
someone else might have learned your password and logged on with your user ID.
Note. The secondary owner attribute is supported only on systems running G06.27 and
later G-series RVUs and H06.07 and later H-series RVUs.