Administer user information

The administration API allows us to administer the information associated with an ISAM user.

When a user account has been created in the user registry, we can set and get various information about the user. We must create a security context between the calling application and the ISAM policy server before we can access the user registry. We can obtain the user registry information for a user object by specifying either the ISAM user name or the user registry name.

Table 1 lists the methods available for administering user information.

Methods	Description
PDUser constructor	Instantiates a user object for the specified Security Verify Access or user registry name.
PDUser object.getDescription	Returns the user description.
PDUser object.getRgyName	Returns the user registry name for the user.
PDUser object.getId	Returns the name of the object.
PDUser object.getFirstName	Returns the first-name attribute for the user.
PDUser object.getLastName	Returns the last-name attribute for the user.
PDUSer object.getLastLogin	Returns the last login time.
PDUser object.getPolicy	Returns the password and account policy settings associated with the user.
PDUser object.getGroups	List the groups in which the user is a member.
PDUser object.isAccountValid	Returns the account-valid indicator for the user.
PDUser object.isPDUser	Returns an indicator Whether the user is an ISAM user.
PDUser object.isSSOUser	Returns an indicator Whether the user has single sign-on capabilities.
PDUser.setDescription PDUser object.set Description	Sets a user description.
PDUser.setAccountValid PDUser object.setAccountValid	Enable or disable a user account.
PDUser.setSSOUser PDUser object.setSSOUser	Enable or disable the single signon capabilities of a user.
PDUser object.isPasswordValid	Returns the enabled indicator for the user password.
PDUser.setPassword PDUser object.setPassword	Sets a user password.
PDUser.setPasswordValid PDUser object.setPasswordValid	Enable or disable a user password.

For detailed reference information about these methods, see the Javadoc HTML documentation.

Parent topic: Administer users and groups