Safeguard Reference Manual (G06.29+, H06.08+, J06.03+)

User Alias Security Commands
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ADD ALIAS Command
ADD ALIAS Command
ADD ALIAS adds a user alias to the system and creates a Safeguard authentication
record for that alias. Once a new alias is added to the system for a user, the user can
log on to the system with that alias.
To execute the ADD ALIAS command, you must have the authority both to add the
underlying user ID and to alter the authentication record for that user ID. For more
information, see Who Can Manage User Aliases on page 6-1.
You can use the SET ALIAS command to set default values for the user attributes and
then use ADD ALIAS to identify the user alias record to which the default values are to
be assigned. You can also specify attribute values in your ADD ALIAS command. The
current default values are used for any attributes left unspecified.
ALIAS
identifies ALIAS as the object class of the ADD command. Omit it if ALIAS is the
assumed class. (For more information about assumed commands, see the
ASSUME Command on page 4-3.)
alias
is the alias name to be added to the system. The name must be unique within the
local system. 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 the alias is converted to
uppercase letters. For example, the alias Prog3.SueB is not valid if a user name
PROG3.SUEB already exist
s.
group-name.member-name
is the user name of the user with
which this alias is to be associated. The group-
name.member-name must already exist.
group-name and member-name cannot cont
ain wild-card characters.
ADD ALIAS alias [ , ]
{ group-name.member-name | group-num,member-num }
[ LIKE user | user-attribute ]
[ , user-attribute ] ...