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authorJon Robertson <jonrober@stanford.edu>2010-01-21 19:08:48 -0800
committerJon Robertson <jonrober@stanford.edu>2010-01-21 19:08:48 -0800
commit43c1420d37df58fdfc8b7e5ae229afd34a8bf070 (patch)
tree35ab07deb0f32b51871aa6596f9dea072bc53ec7 /perl
parentaca12f7b67b987c4392d85b4aa9d2dc1861b7556 (diff)
Documentation additions and fixes
Added documentation for the new object and acl list searches to perl/Wallet/Admin.pm and server/wallet-admin. Also fixed a POD error in perl/Wallet/Kadmin.pm's docs.
Diffstat (limited to 'perl')
-rw-r--r--perl/Wallet/Admin.pm38
-rw-r--r--perl/Wallet/Kadmin.pm2
2 files changed, 30 insertions, 10 deletions
diff --git a/perl/Wallet/Admin.pm b/perl/Wallet/Admin.pm
index 701c813..c86cbba 100644
--- a/perl/Wallet/Admin.pm
+++ b/perl/Wallet/Admin.pm
@@ -475,12 +475,14 @@ initialize() uses C<localhost> as the hostname and PRINCIPAL as the user
when logging the history of the ADMIN ACL creation and for any subsequent
actions on the object it returns.
-=item list_acls()
+=item list_acls(TYPE, SEARCH)
-Returns a list of all ACLs in the database. The return value is a list of
-references to pairs of ACL ID and name. For example, if there are two
-ACLs in the database, one with name "ADMIN" and ID 1 and one with name
-"group/admins" and ID 3, list_acls() would return:
+Returns a list of all ACLs matching a search type and string in the
+database, or all ACLs if no search information is given. The return value
+is a list of references to pairs of ACL ID and name. For example, if
+there are two ACLs in the database, one with name "ADMIN" and ID 1 and one
+with name "group/admins" and ID 3, list_acls() with no arguments would
+return:
([ 1, 'ADMIN' ], [ 3, 'group/admins' ])
@@ -489,12 +491,20 @@ at least one ACL, but an error can be distinguished from the odd case of a
database with no ACLs by calling error(). error() is guaranteed to return
the error message if there was an error and undef if there was no error.
-=item list_objects()
+There are currently two search types. 'empty' takes no arguments, and will
+return only those acls that have no entries within them. 'entry' takes two
+arguments -- an entry scheme and an entry identifier -- and will return
+any ACLs with an entry that matches the given scheme and contains the
+given identifier.
-Returns a list of all objects in the database. The return value is a list
-of references to pairs of type and name. For example, if two objects
-existed in the database, both of type "keytab" and with values
-"host/example.com" and "foo", list_objects() would return:
+=item list_objects(TYPE, SEARCH)
+
+Returns a list of all objects matching a search type and string in the
+database, or all objects in the database if no search information is
+given. The return value is a list of references to pairs of type and
+name. For example, if two objects existed in the database, both of type
+"keytab" and with values "host/example.com" and "foo", list_objects()
+with no arguments would return:
([ 'keytab', 'host/example.com' ], [ 'keytab', 'foo' ])
@@ -503,6 +513,14 @@ database containing no objects, the caller should call error(). error()
is guaranteed to return the error message if there was an error and undef
if there was no error.
+There are four types of searches currently. 'type' (with a given type)
+will return only those entries where the type matches the given type.
+'owner', with a given owner, will only return those objects owned by the
+given acl name. 'flag', with a given flag name, will only return those
+items with a flag set to the given value. 'acl' operates like 'owner',
+but will return only those objects that have the given acl name on any
+of the possible acl settings, not just owner.
+
=item register_object (TYPE, CLASS)
Register in the database a mapping from the object type TYPE to the class
diff --git a/perl/Wallet/Kadmin.pm b/perl/Wallet/Kadmin.pm
index 200136c..0a9bd43 100644
--- a/perl/Wallet/Kadmin.pm
+++ b/perl/Wallet/Kadmin.pm
@@ -120,6 +120,8 @@ calling valid_principal on the returned object -- this method is a shortcut
in case we want to check validity without creating the object and worrying
about proper setup.
+=back
+
=head1 SEE ALSO
kadmin(8), Wallet::Config(3), Wallet::Object::Keytab(3), wallet-backend(8)