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edauth(8) System Manager's Manual edauth(8) NAME edauth - update and list authcap database information (Enhanced Secu- rity) SYNOPSIS /usr/tcb/bin/edauth [-d db] [-L|-N] [-q] [-v] entryname ... /usr/tcb/bin/edauth -g [-d db] [-L|-N] [-q] [-v] [entryname...] /usr/tcb/bin/edauth -s [-d db] [-L|-N] [-R] [-U uid] [-C] [-q] [-v] /usr/tcb/bin/edauth -r [-d db] [-L|-N] [-q] [-v] entryname... /usr/tcb/bin/edauth -H FLAGS -d db Specifies which database to use. Select from one of the charac- ters d, f, p, t, or v. d - /etc/auth/system/default f - /etc/auth/system/files p - User profile data in the /tcb/files/auth.db and /var/tcb/files/auth.db files. t - /etc/auth/system/ttys.db v - /etc/auth/system/devassign The default database is p (user profiles) if no -d option is given. -g Gets the named entries (or all) and prints them to standard out- put rather than editing them. If the -q option is also given, the entries are not printed, and the exit status is the only confirmation of whether at least one entry would have been printed if -q had not been specified. -r Removes (deletes) named entries rather than editing them. -s Sets new values based on pre-edited entries read from standard input. If a new entry is being created, the corresponding passwd entry must be created first. If the -C option is not given, existing entries will be overwritten by the new data. -v Gives more verbose messages. -C Restricts the -s option to creating new entries only, rather than possibly overwriting existing ones. -L Uses only local entries, not NIS. -N Uses only NIS entries, not local. -R Causes new local user-profile entries to be written to the root partition only, no matter what the uid of the profile. -U uid Specifies the minimum general user UID. User-profile entries with UIDs less than this value (default of 100) will be written to the root partition in the /tcb/files/auth.db file. Profiles with uids greater than or equal to the specified value will be written to the /var/tcb/files/auth.db file. -H Print a help message and exit successfully with no further pro- cessing. DESCRIPTION The edauth utility is used to make changes to the system databases used by the ENHANCED security subsets. It is intended for disaster-recovery situations, since the GUIs provide a much friendlier interface. How- ever, for sites where X is not available, it can be used for general maintenance of these databases. If none of the -s, -g, or -r options are given, edauth will extract each matching entry into a temporary file, and allow the user to edit that entry. If the edited entry has more unparsed fields than did the old copy, a warning is given. If the -v option was given, the unparsed text is displayed. Editing and setting of entries in NIS maps is only allowed on the NIS master host, in which case the changes are made to the NIS map source files themselves, and a make of the NIS maps is then performed by edauth. The only option available to an unprivileged user is displaying the publicly-accessible databases or the user's own profile. EXAMPLES To display just the wildcard entries from the ttys and devassign data- bases: # edauth -g -dt '*' '*:*' # edauth -g -dv '*' '*:*' To display the system defaults data: # edauth -g -dd For an unprivileged user to display his or her own profile: # edauth -g For a privileged user to display all user profiles: # edauth -g To display the user profile for root: # edauth -g root To edit the entry for user root: # edauth root To edit the ttys database entry for lat/628: # edauth -dt lat/628 To edit the NIS profile entry for user nobody: # edauth -N nobody To add a template of cis401 to a list of user names contained in a file named students: edauth -g `cat students` \ | sed 's/:chkent:/:u_template=cis401:chkent:/' \ | edauth -s ENVIRONMENT The following environment variables may be used by edauth: TERM Checked for being set only, in order to determine whether the $VISUAL environment variable should be consulted to find an edi- tor to use. The $TERM variable is also likely to be used by the editor that is spawned. VISUAL Consulted to find the editor to use when editing data, if the $TERM environment variable is set. EDITOR Consulted to find the editor to use when editing data. If nei- ther the $VISUAL nor the $EDITOR environment variable is avail- able, edauth will check /usr/bin/ex and /sbin/ed for execute permissions and will stop attempts to edit data if none can be found. Other environment variables which are likely to be used: NOPUSH This environment variable is checked by the /var/yp/Makefile file when updating the NIS maps in order to determine whether to force the NIS slave servers to update their maps immediately (and to wait for that update). RELATED INFORMATION Commands: convuser(8), convauth(8), authck(8) Files: authcap(4), prpasswd(4), ttys(4), default(4), devassign(4), files(4) Security delim off edauth(8)