Automation Security Reference

Using Security in CORBA Applications

Synopsis

Returns attributes for the Current interface.

MIDL Mapping

HRESULT get_attributes(
[in] VARIANT attributes,
[in,out,optional] VARIANT* exceptionInfo,
[out,retval] VARIANT* returnValue);

Automation Mapping

Function get_attributes(attributes, [exceptionInfo])

Parameters

Description

This method gets privilege (and other) attributes from the credentials for the client application from the Current interface.

Return Values

A variant containing an array of DISecurity_SecAttribute objects. The following table describes the valid return values.

Return Value	Meaning
Security::Public	Empty (Public is returned when no authentication was performed.)
Security::AccessId	Null-terminated ASCII string containing the BEA Tuxedo username.
Security::PrimaryGroupId	Null-terminated ASCII string containing the BEA Tuxedo name of the client application.