Syntax
int getuserpasswd ( int user [, string prompt] [, int attempts] )
Description
getuserpasswd prompts the specified user for a password. You can specify an optional prompt, which defaults to "Password:". And you can specify the number of attempts to allow; the default is 3.
By default, this function authenticates the user on the policy server. Set the value of getpasswordfromrun in pm.settings to yes to authenticate the user on the client instead.
Returns true if the user enters the correct codeword; otherwise false.
Example
if (getuserpasswd("admin", "Password: ", 1) == false ) {
reject;
}
These are the built-in remote access functions available to use within the pmpolicy file.
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"))
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"))
