HP Process Resource Manager User's Guide

Administering PRM

Displaying netgroup expansions

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Using the prmlist command, we get all the group and alternate group

assignments (a portion of the output has been omitted for brevity):

# prmlist

PRM User Initial Group Alternate Group(s)

------------------------------------------------------------------

guest OTHERS

user0 even_PRM_group

user1 odd_PRM_group

user2 even_PRM_group prime_PRM_group

user3 odd_PRM_group prime_PRM_group

user4 even_PRM_group

user5 Five

root PRM_SYS

For the users who are members of multiple netgroups, their initial and

alternate groups are cumulative. For example, user2 is in the even and

prime netgroups, with initial groups even_PRM_group and

prime_PRM_group, respectively. In this situation, the netgroup names

are sorted (based on the ASCII dictionary), and the netgroup at the top of

the sort list is used to determine user2’s initial PRM group. Thus,

because even_PRM_group comes before prime_PRM_group,

even_PRM_group is used as the initial group. All other PRM groups

speciﬁed in the netgroups’ user records become alternate groups.

Here the -u option limits the output to the prime netgroup:

# prmlist -u +prime

PRM User Initial Group Alternate Group(s)

------------------------------------------------------------------

user5 Five

user3 odd_PRM_group prime_PRM_group

user2 even_PRM_group prime_PRM_group

Recall that user5 is in multiple netgroups. Based on the cumulative

effect of netgroup membership for user2 and user3, one would expect

user5 to show an initial group and at least one alternate group.

However, user5 has an explicit user record, which takes precedence over

any netgroup’s user records.