Sun N1 Service Provisioning System 5.2 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 ID to a file, the arguments -o and -of must be specified before the username and password. The usage of -o and -of options is shown inTable 1–1

Table 14–25 Result of the udb.login Command


Argument		Syntax	Description
u	Required	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 14–1 Example of Sending the Session ID to a File

This example demonstrates how to save a session ID 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. To logout from a session using the CLI command cr_cli, the —s (session id) argument needs to be specified. The session id is returned after a successful execution of udb.login command. Please refer to the udb.login command on how to save a session id to a file.

# cr_cli -cmd udb.logout -s session_id

Note –

The —s parameter is not required if the command is run inside a Jython shell (clij).

udb.whoami

This command returns the owner of the current session.

Table 14–26 Result of the udb.whoami Command


Result	Syntax	Description
result	UserID	The current user ID