Sun N1 Service Provisioning System 5.1 Command-Line Interface Reference Manual

Authentication Commands

udb.login

Logs in a user and returns a SessionID that can be used for authentication. To send the session IDto a file, the arguments -o and -of must be specified before the username and password.

Table 13–25 Result of the udb.login Command


Argument		Syntax	Description
o	[O]	String	The name of the formatter
of	[O]	String	The name of the output file
u	[R]	String	The username
p	[O/R]	String	The plaintext user password; required if the encoded password is not available or supplied.
ep	[O/R]	String	The encoded user password; required if the plaintext password is not available or supplied.
result		SessionID	The session ID

Example 13–1 Example of Sending the Session ID to a File

This example demonstrates saving a session ID being saved for reuse.

Name of formatter: serialized
Name of output file: sessionid

# cr_cli -cmd udb.login -o serialized -of sessionid -u admin -p admin

udb.logout

This command logs out the user who runs it.

udb.whoami

This command returns the owner of the current session.

Table 13–26 Result of the udb.whoami Command


Result	Syntax	Description
result	UserID	The current user ID