NAME

afd.users - permissions for individual users using AFD

FULL PATH

$AFD_WORK_DIR/etc/afd.users

DESCRIPTION

If afd.users file does not exist (or AFD fails to read it) every user may do everything, if he as permission to write to the internal fifo's and database. To restrict access you can enter the users name together with the options he is allowed to use.

The file contains entries of the form:

operator  startup, afd_ctrl, control_transfer, show_slog
afd       all

The user operator may startup the AFD, he may call afd_ctrl, start/stop a transfer and view the system log, nothing else. Whereas the user afd may do everything. The following table list and describes what permissions are available.

startup

The user may start AFD.

shutdown

The user may shutdown AFD.

initialize

The user may initialize AFD.

resend

Resend files from show_olog dialog.

send

Send files to host not in DIR_CONFIG from show_olog and/or show_queue dialog.

view_passwd

View the password in the recipient string. If not set you will only see xxxx in place of the password.

set_passwd

Set the password for a certain host and user.

view_data

Allows user to view the actual data distributed by AFD if it has been archived.

list_limit x

Limit the number of files in the show_xlog dialog to x. Otherwise these process might consume to much memory since they use the list widget.

show_slog

View the system log dialog.

show_elog

View the event log dialog.

show_tlog

View the transfer log dialog.

show_tdlog

View the transfer debug log dialog.

show_rlog

View the receive log dialog.

show_ilog

View the input log dialog.

show_olog

View the output log dialog.

show_dlog

View the delete log dialog.

show_queue

See what files are currently being queued on input, time and or output.

delete_queue

Allows user to delete file from the queue. If you set this option then you must also set the above option show_queue.

edit_hc

Use the edit_hc dialog.

afd_ctrl

View the afd_ctrl dialog.

rafd_ctrl

View the afd_ctrl dialog via mon_ctrl dialog.

dir_ctrl

View the dir_ctrl dialog.

disable_dir

Disable a certain directory monitored by AFD.

rescan

Rescan a certain directory. Only useful for directories where time option is set in [dir options].

dir_info

View the dir_info dialog.

AMG_control

Start or stop process AMG, which is responsible for scanning local directories.

FD_control

Start or stop process FD, which is responsible for distributing the data.

handle_events

Allows user to handle events via afd_ctrl and/or dir_ctrl dialog.

control_queue

Start/Stop input queue. Stopping the queue means that AFD internally will not generate any messages, but no data is lost either. All current jobs that have a message will still be transmitted.

control_transfer

Start/Stop transfer. Stopping the transfer means that messages are still being generated, but the FD will not distribute the files.

control_host

Start/Stop host. Stopping a host has the same effect as stopping transfer and queue.

switch_host

Switch host if there is a secondary host.

disable

Enable or disable a host.

info

Information about each host or AFD.

view_dir_config

View how this host is configured in the DIR_CONFIG.

debug

Enable or disable debug.

trace

Enable or disable trace.

full_trace

Enable or disable full trace. Difference to trace is that this also traces the data that is transmitted.

ctrl_delete_data

Enable/disable control of deleting data when option age-limit and/or

file_dir_check

Force a a check of stale jobs in the file directory.

force_archive_check

Force process archive_check to remove files in archive directory. archive_check does this at a fixed interval and afdcmd can be used to force a scan outside this interval.

show_exec_stat

Allows usage of program to show and reset CPU clock times for exec/fork statistics.

retry

Send retry command for a host.

view_jobs

View more detailed information about each current transfer.

afd_load

View afd_load dialog.

reread_dir_config

Reread DIR_CONFIG to activate any changes.

reread_host_config

Reread HOST_CONFIG to activate any changes.

reread_interface_file

Reread local_interface.list to activate any changes.

afdcmd

Use of the command line program afdcmd to control most of the above.

afdcfg

Use of the command line program afdcfg to enable/disable certain features in the AFD.

mon_ctrl

View the mon_ctrl dialog.

mon_startup

Start AFD monitor (afd_mon).

mon_shutdown

Shutdown AFD monitor.

disable_afd

Disable monitoring of an AFD.

mafdcmd

Use of the command line program mafdcmd to control the AFD monitor.

AUTHOR

Holger Kiehl <Holger.Kiehl@dwd.de>

SEE ALSO

afd(1) afdcmd(1) afdcfg(1)