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TABLE C–1 Remote Commands Required Options (Continued)
Option Definition
--passwordfile The --passwordfile option specifies the name of a file containing the password
entries in a specific format. The entry for the password must have the AS_ADMIN_
prefix followed by the password name in uppercase letters.
For example, to specify the domain administration server password, use an entry with
the following format: AS_ADMIN_PASSWORD=password, where password is the actual
administrator password. Other passwords that can be specified include
AS_ADMIN_MAPPEDPASSWORD
, AS_ADMIN_USERPASSWORD, and
AS_ADMIN_ALIASPASSWORD .
All remote commands must specify the admin password to authenticate to the
domain administration server, either through--passwordfile or asadmin login, or
interactively on the command prompt. The asadmin login command can be used
only to specify the admin password. For other passwords, that must be specified for
remote commands, use the --passwordfile or enter them at the command prompt.
If you have authenticated to a domain using the asadmin login command, then you
need not specify the admin password through the --passwordfile option on
subsequent operations to this particular domain. However, this is applicable only to
AS_ADMIN_PASSWORD
option. You will still need to provide the other passwords, for
example, AS_ADMIN_USERPASSWORD, as and when required by individual commands,
such as update-file-user.
For security reasons, passwords specified as an environment variable will not be read
by asadmin.
--secure If set to true, uses SSL/TLS to communicate with the domain administration server.
--interactive If set to true (default), only the required password options are prompted.
--terse Indicates that any output data must be very concise, typically avoiding
human-friendly sentences and favoring well-formatted data for consumption by a
script. Default is false.
--echo Setting to true will echo the command line statement on the standard output. Default
is false.
--help Displays the help text for the command.
The Multimode Command
Use the multimode command to process the asadmin commands. The command-line interface
will prompt you for a command, execute that command, display the results of the command,
and then prompt you for the next command. Additionally, all the asadmin option names set in
this mode are used for all the subsequent commands. You can set your environment and run
commands until you exit multimode by typing “exit” or “quit.” You can also provide commands
by passing a previously prepared list of commands from a file or standard input (pipe). You can
The Multimode Command
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