Safeguard Administrator's Manual (G06.29+, H06.08+, J06.03+)

Controlling User Access
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Assigning an Alias to a User
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In addition, the local super ID can add an alias for any user regardless of the
existence of an OBJECTTYPE USER record (unless OBJECTTYPE USER
specifically denies the super ID).
Each alias must be unique within the local system. An 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 it is converted to uppercase
letters. For example, the alias Dev12.PatM is not allowed if a user name DEV12.PATM
already exists.
These names are examples of valid aliases:
BILL-J
my-new-name
juj_smails
Admin5
36checker
BBonds.660
YodaJones
This example shows how to assign an alias to a user. In the example, the group
manager for the user SOFTWARE.RALPH (user ID 4,32) assigns the alias RalphW to
the user:
=ADD ALIAS RalphW, software.ralph, PASSWORD BluSky
SOFTWARE.RALPH can now log on with alias RalphW. When he logs on using this
alias, he must enter the password BluSky.
The alias RalphW can also be assigned its own unique set of user attributes that can
differ from those assigned to the user name SOFTWARE.RALPH. For example, the
group manager issues the following command to specify auditing for every access
attempt performed by SOFTWARE.RALPH when he is logged on with the alias
RalphW:
=ALTER ALIAS RalphW, AUDIT-USER-ACTION-PASS ALL, &
=AUDIT-USER-ACTION-FAIL ALL
The group manager then uses this command to verify the alias authentication record
for RalphW:
=INFO ALIAS RalphW, DETAIL