pbcall | EPM-UL

The pbcall program is used for two purposes. To test, on the local machine, what a given function call would do, and to allow an Endpoint Privilege Management for Unix and Linux policy language function to be executed from the command line.

Syntax

pbcall –policy-function-name args …

Arguments

Files

None

Example

Using the stat() function:

pbcall –stat /etc

This command returns, on the screen, the results of a call to the stat call. Using this program from an EPM-UL session, you can execute a command such as:

list = system("/usr/local/bin/pbrun –h "+submithost+
" /usr/local/bin/pbcall –stat /etc");
statresult = split(list,",");

This command gives the same results as:

statresult = stat("/etc")

except that it is executed on the local machine as opposed to the policy server host. Multiple EPM-UL functions can be called at the one time:

pbcall –gethome user1 –getname user1

The output is put on different lines.

Lists need to be specified within quotation marks. For example:

pbcall –search "{a,b,c}" a

Strings can be quoted using single quotation marks or double quotation marks.