Built-in Functions and Procedures

The Security Policy Scripting Language provides built-in functions and procedures to help simplify security policy implementation. Built-in functions and procedures are stand-alone subroutines that perform specific tasks. The difference between a function and a procedure is that a function returns a value while a procedure does not.

Taking advantage of Endpoint Privilege Management for Unix and Linux built-in functions and procedures can dramatically speed the implementation time of a company’s security policy implementation.

Endpoint Privilege Management for Unix and Linux built-in functions are divided into the following groups:

• Date and time functions
• File and path functions
• Format and conversion functions
• Input and output functions and procedures
• LDAP functions
• List functions
• Miscellaneous functions
• NIS functions
• Policy environment functions and procedures
• String functions
• Task control procedures
• Task environment functions and procedures
• User and password functions
• PAM policy functions
• Advanced Control and Audit (ACA) procedure