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Name

auth - dbman’s client authorization table

Description

auth is used by dbmand to associate clients with write permissions and datapoint ownership in the AccelNET database. A client connects to dbman and sends a registration request. dbman looks up the task name provided by the client in the auth table. The client is granted owner and group permissions based on the IP address of the client and the registration information provided by the client.

Table format

Each entry in the auth table contains four fields. hostname, registration task name, database task id, database group id

Lines starting with a # are treated as comments. Emtpy lines are ignored.

hostname
The hostname where the client is expected to run.
registration task name
The name the client will register under. Usually this is the same as the name of the executable.
database task id
The AccelNET task name.
database group id
The AccelNET group name.

Example auth table


localhost            NLKmngr NLKtsk OpWrt
localhost            NUMmngr NUMtsk OpWrt
localhost            DUtask DUtsk DaqWrt
localhost            BPMserv BpmTsk OpWrt

See Also

dbmand(8)

Manual page revision

$Id: auth.5,v 1.1 1999/05/14 16:15:04 kitchen Exp $

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