14.2 API Function List

API routines are provided to perform the following functions:

Initialize the environment.
- C: ASC_INIT, ASC_INIT_EXT
- Java: init
Terminate the environment.
- C: ASC_TERM
- Java: destroy
Validate a user ID and password combination.
- C: ASC_CHKPASSWD
- Java: checkPassword
Change a user's password, given the current password.
- C: ASC_CHGPASSWD
- Java: changePassword
Reset a user's password as an administrative user.
- C: ASC_ADMINRSTPASSWD
- Java: adminResetPassword
Obtain the fully distinguished name for a user ID.
- C: ASC_GETCONTEXT
- Java: getContext
Determine if a user has security equal to a given object.
- C: ASC_SECEQUAL
- Java: securityEquals
Determine if an object has the specified effective rights to the specified attribute of another object.
- C: ASC_RIGHTS
- Java: effectiveRights
Obtain a list of members of a group.
- C: ASC_GRPMEM
- Java: groupMembers
Obtain a list of security equivalences for a user.
- C: ASC_LISTSEQV
- Java: listSecurityEquivalences
Obtain attribute values for an object.
- C: ASC_READATTR
- Java: readAttribute
Determine if a given user is in the Include/Exclude list.
- C: ASC_USER_INCLUDE_EXCLUDE
- Java: userIncludeExclude
Decode API return values.
- C: ASC_STRERROR
- Java: strError
Convert number of seconds to number of days.
- C: ASC_DAYS
- Java: secondsToDays