Automation Security Reference

Using Security in CORBA Applications

DISecurityLevel2_Current.get_attributes

Returns attributes for the Current interface.

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

Function get_attributes(attributes, [exceptionInfo])

attributes

The set of security attributes (privilege attribute types) whose values are desired. If this list is empty, all attributes are returned.

exceptioninfo

An optional input argument that allows the client application to get additional exception data if an error occurs.

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

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.