Syntax
string getshell ( string user )
 
Description
getshell returns the specified user’s login program from the policy server (or from the client host if getpasswordfromrun is set to yes in the policy server's pm.settings file).
 
Example
#check the user's shell on the policy server is in /opt/quest/bin 
shell=getshell(user); 
if (dirname(shell) != "/opt/quest/bin") { 
   reject "You are only permitted to run a login shell from /opt/quest/bin"; 
} 
 
    
These are the built-in Authentication Services functions available to use within the pmpolicy file.
 
    
Syntax
int vas_auth_user_password ( string user, string pmpt, [, int tries] )
 
Description
The vas_auth_user_password function attempts to authenticate a user to Active Directory using the Authentication Services API. This feature is platform dependent. The feature_enabled() function indicates whether this feature is supported on a particular policy server.
Returns 1 if the user successfully authenticates; otherwise it returns 0 (zero).
 
Example
if (feature_enabled(FEATURE_VAS) ) { 
   if (!vas_auth_user_password(user, "AD Password:", 3)) { 
      reject “Failed to authenticate to AD”; 
   } 
}  
    
Syntax
int vas_host_in_ADgrouplist ( string hostname, string domain, list ADgrouplist [, boolean verbose] )
 
Description
The vas_host_in_ADgrouplist function checks if the selected host name and domain is a member of any group in the selected list. It calls vas_host_is_member for each item in the list. 
Returns: -1 if host is not found in the list, otherwise it returns the index of the matched list entry.