updateGroup command

Use this command to modify the properties of a group.

Purpose

Use the updateGroup command to modify the following properties of a group: These are the only properties that you can modify with the updateGroup command.

If successful, the updateGroup command returns the unique name of the updated group.

Note: If the Use global security settings option is selected for the user realm or the Global federated repositories option is selected as the realm type for the specified domain, this command is executed on the federated repository of the admin domain. However, configuration changes that are performed on the domain are applied to the security domain-specific configuration.

Syntax

updateGroup { -uniqueName uniqueName [-cn commonname] 
[-description description] [-securityDomainName domainName] } 

Parameters

-uniqueName uniqueName
Specifies the unique name value for the group that you want to modify the properties for. This parameter maps to the uniqueName property in virtual member manager.
-cn commonname
Specifies the new common name used for the group. This parameter maps to the cn property in virtual member manager.
-description description
Specifies the new information about the group. This parameter maps to the description entity in a virtual member manager object.
-securityDomainName domainName
Specifies the name that uniquely identifies the security domain. If you do not specify this parameter, the command uses the global federated repository.

Sample

To change the common name of the group called operators to groupA and to change the description of the group to graphicArtists, issue this command:
$AdminTask updateGroup {-uniqueName cn=operators,cn=groups,dc=yourco,dc=com -cn groupA 
                        –description graphicArtists}


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