System Administration Guide: Security Services

How to View a Principal's Attributes

An example of the command-line equivalent follows this procedure.

  1. If necessary, start the SEAM Tool.

    See How to Start the SEAM Tool for details.

  2. Click the Principals tab.

  3. Select the principal in the list that you want to view, then click Modify.

    The Principal Basics panel that contains some of the principal's attributes is displayed.

  4. Continue to click Next to view all the principal's attributes.

    Three windows contain attribute information. Choose Context-Sensitive Help from the Help menu to get information about the various attributes in each window. Or, for all the principal attribute descriptions, go to SEAM Tool Panel Descriptions.

  5. When you are finished viewing, click Cancel.

Example—Viewing a Principal's Attributes

The following example shows the first window when you are viewing the jdb/admin principal.

Dialog box titled SEAM Administration Tool shows account data for the jdb/admin principal.  Shows account expiration date and comments.

Example—Viewing a Principal's Attributes (Command Line)

In the following example, the get_principal command of kadmin is used to view the attributes of the jdb/admin principal.


kadmin: getprinc jdb/admin
Principal: jdb/admin@EXAMPLE.COM
Expiration date: Fri Aug 25 17:19:05 PDT 2000
Last password change: [never]
Password expiration date: Wed Apr 14 11:53:10 PDT 1999
Maximum ticket life: 1 day 16:00:00
Maximum renewable life: 1 day 16:00:00
Last modified: Thu Jan 14 11:54:09 PST 1999 (admin/admin@EXAMPLE.COM)
Last successful authentication: [never]
Last failed authentication: [never]
Failed password attempts: 0
Number of keys: 1
Key: vno 1, DES cbc mode with CRC-32, no salt
Attributes: REQUIRES_HW_AUTH
Policy: [none]
kadmin: quit