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Privilege Manager for Unix 7.1 - Administration Guide

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Remote access functions

These are the built-in remote access functions available to use within the pmpolicy file.

Table 44: Remote access functions
Name Description
remotefileexists Check a file exists on a host.
remotegroupinfo Check if a group exists on a host.
remotegrouplist Get a list of groups from a host.
remotesysinfo Get the uname information from a host.
remoteusergroups Get a list of a user’s groups on a host.
remoteuserinfo Get a user’s information from a host.

remoteuserlist

Get a list of users on a host.

remotefileexists

Syntax
int remotefileexists ( string hostname, string filename )
Description

The remotefileexists function checks whether a filename exists on the remote system hostname.

Returns true if the file exists; otherwise, it returns false.

The remote host must be configured to run either pmmasterd or pmclientd to respond to this function.

Example
print(remotefileexists(runhost,"/etc/passwd"))

remotegroupinfo

Syntax
list remotegroupinfo ( string hostname, string groupname )
Description

remotegroupinfo returns the group ID and a list of members of the specified group from the remote host.

The remote host must be configured to run either pmmasterd or pmclientd to respond to this function.

Example
#print the bin group info from the runhost 
print(remoteuserinfo(runhost,"bin")) 
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remoteuserinfo

remotesysinfo

remotegrouplist

Syntax
list remotegrouplist ( string hostname )
Description

remotegrouplist returns the full list of group names and the associated group IDs located on the remote host.

The remote host must be configured to run either pmmasterd or pmclientd to respond to this function.

Example
#print the remote groups on runhost 
print(remotegrouplist(runhost)) 
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