object exists

Whether a protected object exists. The protected object might be located either in:

• The policy database, or in
• An object space that is managed by an administration service plug-in.

The administration service plug-in might be registered by an authorization application, such as WebSEAL. Use this command to determine Whether the specified object was created.

Authentication (administrator ID and password) is required to use.

object exists object_name

Options

object_name

Protected object, which is the fully qualified name of the object, including the object space within which it is located.

Examples of object names are:

• /Management/Groups/Travel
• /WebSEAL
• /Management

Return codes

0

The command completed successfully.

1

The command failed. When a command fails, the pdadmin command provides a description of the error and an error status code in hexadecimal format (for example, 0x14c012f2). See "Error messages" in the IBM Knowledge Center. This reference provides a list of the ISAM error messages by decimal or hexadecimal codes.

Examples

• The following example confirms Object named /Management/protected_object1 exists:

  pdadmin sec_master> object exists /Management/protected_object1

  The output is like:

  Exists: Yes

The following example confirms Object named /Management/notAnObject exists:

pdadmin sec_master> object exists /Management/notAnObject

The output is like:

Exists: No

See also

object listandshow
object show

Parent topic: pdadmin commands