Chapter 13. Administering the Protection Database
| Part IV. Managing Users and Groups |

## Chapter 13. Administering the Protection Database

This chapter explains how to create and maintain user, machine, and group entries in the Protection Database.

## Summary of Instructions

This chapter explains how to perform the following tasks by using the indicated commands:

Display Protection Database entry | pts examine
Map user, machine or group name to AFS ID | pts examine
Display entry's owner or creator | pts examine
Display number of users or machines belonging to group | pts examine
Display number of groups user or machine belongs to | pts examine
Display group-creation quota | pts examine
Display entry's privacy flags | pts examine
Display members of group, or groups that user or machine belongs to | pts membership
Display groups that user or group owns | pts listowned
Display all entries in Protection Database | pts listentries
Create machine entry | pts createuser
Create group entry | pts creategroup
Add users and machines to groups | pts adduser
Remove users and machines from groups | pts removeuser
Delete machine or group entry | pts delete
Change a group's owner | pts chown
Change an entry's name | pts rename
Set group creation quota | pts setfields
Set entry's privacy flags | pts setfields
Display AFS ID counters | pts listmax
Set AFS ID counters | pts setmax

Removing a User Account |  | About the Protection Database