OSF DCE Application Development Guide--Core Components

The Registry API

27.2.3.3 Organization Policies

Another parameter set controls the set of accounts of principals that are members of an

organization. These parameters control the lifetime and length of passwords, as well as

the set of characters from which passwords may be composed. This parameter set also

speciﬁes the default lifespan of accounts associated with the organization. The routines

associated with this parameter set are

• sec_rgy_plcy_get_info()

• sec_rgy_plcy_get_effective()

• sec_rgy_plcy_set_info( )

27.2.4 Routines to Return UNIX Structures

The registry API provides calls to obtain registry entries in a UNIX compatible structure.

These APIs return account and group entries similar to the getpwnam, getgrnam,

getpwuid, and getgrid UNIX library routines. These APIs, which can be called by the

corresponding UNIX library routines to ensure compatibility with UNIX programs, are

• sec_rgy_unix_getpwnam()

Returns a UNIX compatible password entry for an account speciﬁed by name

• sec_rgy_unix_getgrnam( )

Returns a UNIX compatible group entry for an account associated with a speciﬁed

group name

• sec_rgy_unix_getpwuid()

Returns a UNIX compatible password entry for an account speciﬁed by UNIX ID

• sec_rgy_unix_getgrgid( )

Returns a UNIX compatible group entry for an account associated with a speciﬁed

group ID

27.2.5 Miscellaneous Registry Routines

The registry API includes a few miscellaneous routines, as follows:

• sec_rgy_login_get_info( )

Returns login information for the speciﬁed account.

• sec_rgy_login_get_effective( )

Applies local overrides (if such data is available) to registry account information and

returns information about which account information ﬁelds have been overridden

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