OSF DCE Administration Guide--Core Components

DCE Control Program Introduction
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Get information about available command options by adding an
operation argument to the object help command. The following
example returns a 1-line description of each option supported by the
principal create operation:
dcecp> principal help create
-alias Add principal named as an alias of specified uid
-attribute Attribute list to be assigned to the principal to be added
-fullname Fullname of the principal to be added
-quota Quota of the principal to be added
-uid User Identifier of the principal to be added
-uuid Orphaned UUID to be adopted by the specified principal
dcecp>
• Get help about an object itself by using an object help -verbose
command. The following example returns a description of the
principal object along with information about how to use the object:
dcecp> principal help -verbose
The principal object represents registry principals. All of
the principal operations take one argument which is a list
of names of principals to act on. It must be a principal
name, not the name of the database object that contains the
registry information about the principal (i.e., it should
not begin with /.:/sec/principal/). After this operation
executes, the s(sec) convenience variable is set to the name
of the server that was bound to for the operation. The value
of the variable before the operation is treated as a hint.
In the registry, each principal has a primary name and a
value for each of the following attributes: alias, fullname,
quota, uid, uuid.
dcecp>
• Finally, some POSIX style systems will have reference pages for dcecp
objects as well as a Tcl summary reference page. Each dcecp object
has its own reference page that describes the object and the operations
available to it. The general syntax for viewing a dcecp object
reference page is
man object_name
The following example shows how to invoke the reference page for the
principal object. Note that you can use the man command from within
dcecp.
dcecp> man principal
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dcecp>
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