freeipa/ipa-admintools/man/ipa-adddelegation.1

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.TH "ipa-adddelegation" "1" "Oct 24 2007" "freeipa" ""
.SH "NAME"
ipa\-adddelegation \- Add a delegation

.SH "SYNOPSIS"
ipa\-adddelegation [\fIOPTION\fR]... \fIname\fR

.SH "DESCRIPTION"
Adds a delegation named \fIname\fR.

A delegation is used to grant access to certain attributes from one group to another.

For example, a secretary group may be granted access to modify the phone attribute of all users in a manager's group.
.SH "OPTIONS"
.TP 
\fB\-a\fR, \fB\-\-attributes\fR=\fIATTRIBUTES\fR
A comma\-separated list of the the \f[SM]attributes\fR that may be written by the source group.

.TP 
\fB\-s\fR, \fB\-\-source\fR=\fISOURCE\fR
The name of the group that is being granted write permission.

.TP 
\fB\-t\fR, \fB\-\-target\fR=\fITARGET\fR
The name of the group that will be written to.

.PP 
All arguments are mandatory.
.SH "EXIT STATUS"
0 if the delegation was added successfully

1 if an error occurred

2 if no not exactly one matching source group was found (0 or more than one)

3 if no not exactly one matching target group was found (0 or more than one