CAS: Administrator's Guide

Overview
Client Options
Using CA administrator command line clients
>Using CAS Query command line clients
Example of CAS Server Administration
CAS-enabled GridFTP Server

Using CAS Query Command line clients

The following queries can be run against the CAS server. These are typically used by CAS clients (who may not be administrators).

The user need cas/query permissions to perform these operations, that is the user must have permission to query on the CAS server object.

Example 1:

  casUser$ cas-whoami [options]

where

• options : client options

Returns the CAS user nick of the client.

Example 2:

  casUser$ cas-list-object [options] type

where

• options : client options
• type : trustAnchor (or) user (or) userGroup (or) object (or) objectGroup (or) objectGroup (or) namespace (or) serviceType (or) serviceAction (or) serviceActionGp

Returns a list of CasObjects in the database of the requested type.

Example 3:

  casUser$ cas-get-object [options] type name

where

• options : client options
• type : trustAnchor (or) user (or) object (or) namespace (or) service Type
• name : nickname (or) nickname (or) objectNamesapce objectName (or) nickname (or) serviceTypeName (corresponding to the type)

Returns the particular object of the said type and name.

Example 4:

  casUser$ cas-group-list-entries [options] type name

where

• options : client options
• type : Type of group. user (or) object (or) serviceAction
• name : Name of group

Returns list of group members.

Example 5:

  casUser$ cas-find-policies [-c cas-url] type name

where

• [-c cas-url] : the URL of the CAS service
• type : trustAnchor (or) user (or) userGroup (or) object (or) objectGroup (or) namespace (or) service Type (or) serviceAction (or) serviceActionGroup
• name : nickname (or) nickname (or) groupName (or) objectNamespace|objectName (or) groupName (or) nickname (or) serviceTypeName (or) serviceType/Action (or) groupName (corresponding to the type)

Returns all applicable policies, both policies that are implicit to the CAS server and those that are external.