OSF DCE Administration Guide--Core Components

Creating and Maintaining Principals, Groups, and Organizations

30.7.3 Changing Groups and Organizations

For groups and organizations, you can change the primary name and full name. In

addition, for groups you can change whether or not the group can appear in project

lists, and for organizations you can change policy. (See Chapter 35 for details on

changing organization policy.)

Use the dcecp group modify command to modify change groups. The following

example shows the use of this command with the -inprojlist option to change the

group symphonist’s project list inclusion property from yes (include on project lists)

to no (prohibit from project lists).

dcecp> group modify symphonists -inprojlist no

Use the dcecp group rename command to change a group’s primary name or the

dcecp organization rename command to change an organization’s primary name.

These commands have the following form:

group rename old_name -to new_name

organization rename old_name -to new_name

where:

old_name Is the primary name of the group or organization to be changed.

new_name Is the new primary name of the group or organization.

The following example shows the group rename command used to change a full

name from symphonists to symphonists7:

dcecp> group rename symphonists -to symphonists7

Note that, if you change a primary name, that change is reﬂected in the membership

lists of all the groups and organizations in which the group or organization is listed as

a member.

30.7.4 Deleting Groups and Organizations

If you delete a group or organization, you also automatically delete any accounts that

use the group or organization. For example, if you delete the group symphonists, you

also automatically delete the accounts vivaldi symphonists baroque and mozart

symphonists classic.

Use the dcecp group delete to delete groups and the dcecp organization delete

command to delete organizations. The following example shows the group delete

command being used to delete the group symphonists:

dcecp> group delete symphonists

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