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vserver services access-check authentication show-unix-ext-creds

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Display a user's UNIX extended credentials based on a UNIX UID

Availability: This command is available to cluster administrators at the advanced privilege level.

Description

The vserver services access-check authentication show-unix-ext-creds command returns the credentials for a UNIX user using UID. This command is useful for retrieving information such as UIDs and GIDs.

Parameters

[-node {<nodename>|local}] - Node (privilege: advanced)

The name of the node on which the command is executed.

-vserver <vserver> - Vserver (privilege: advanced)

The command displays information for the specified Vserver.

-uid <integer> - UID (privilege: advanced)

The UNIX user's UID.

[-ext-groups-limit <integer>] - Extended Groups Limit (privilege: advanced)

The maximum number of GIDs to be fetched. The range is 32 to 1024. The default value is 32.

[-clientIp <IP Address>] - Client IP Address (privilege: advanced)

The IP address of the client as specified by the user

Examples

This example returns credential information for UNIX user with UID "100" on node "node1" for Vserver "vs1."

cluster1::*> vserver services access-check authentication show-unix-ext-creds -node node1 -vserver vs1 -uid 100
(vserver services access-check authentication show-unix-ext-creds)
UNIX UID: 100 (user1)
 UNIX GID: 200 (group1)
 Additional GIDs (Count: 2): 200  201