PTS_LISTENTRIES(1)

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✨ PTS_LISTENTRIES ✨

okay bestie, pull up a chair because this is pts_listentries from the AFS command reference, aka the glow-up of filtering your entire Protection Database 💖

🌸 NAME 🌸

pts_listentries — Displays all users or groups in the Protection Database

🎀 SYNOPSIS 🎀

pts listentries [-users] [-groups] [-cell <cell name>]
    [-noauth] [-localauth] [-force] [-help]
    [-auth] [-encrypt] [-config <config directory>]
pts liste [-u] [-g] [-c <cell name>] [-n] [-l]
    [-f] [-h] [-a] [-e] [-co <config directory>]

💅 DESCRIPTION 💅

So pts listentries is the "show me everyone" command. It displays the name and AFS ID of all Protection Database entries of whatever type you asked for. And because it's generous like that, it also dishes out the AFS ID of each entry's owner and creator. obsessed. 🫶

Now here's the vibe check on which flag gets you what:

  • Wanna see all the user and machine entries? Either pass -users, or literally just don't pass -groups. Omit both and users are what you get. Default queen behavior 👑
  • Wanna see all the group entries? Pass -groups.
  • Wanna see everything? Pass both flags. periodt. ✨

🦋 OPTIONS 🦋

  • -users — Displays user and machine entries.
  • -groups — Displays group entries.
  • -auth — Use the calling user's tokens to communicate with the Protection Server. For more details, see pts(1).
  • -cell <cell name> — Names the cell in which to run the command. For more details, see pts(1).
  • -config <config directory> — Use an alternate config directory. For more details, see pts(1).
  • -encrypt — Encrypts any communication with the Protection Server. For more details, see pts(1).
  • -force — Enables the command to continue executing as far as possible when errors or other problems occur, rather than halting execution at the first error. it's giving "we persist" 💪
  • -help — Prints the online help for this command. All other valid options are ignored.
  • -localauth — Constructs a server ticket using a key from the local /etc/openafs/server/KeyFile file. Do not combine this flag with the -cell or -noauth options. For more details, see pts(1).
  • -noauth — Assigns the unprivileged identity anonymous to the issuer. For more details, see pts(1).
bestie the -localauth + -cell / -noauth combo is a hard no. do not. 🚫

🌈 OUTPUT 🌈

You get one line per entry, and the info lives in four columns with these headers:

  • Name — The entry's name.
  • ID — The entry's AFS ID (AFS UID for a user or machine, negative AFS GID for a group).
  • Owner — The AFS ID of the user or group that owns the entry.
  • Creator — The AFS ID of the user who created the entry (the system:administrators group is listed as the creator of the entry for "anonymous" and the system groups, but it is not otherwise possible for a group to create groups).

In general, the entries appear in the order in which they were created. chronological, as they should be ✨

🍓 EXAMPLES 🍓

The following example displays both user and group entries.

% pts listentries -users -groups
Name                          ID  Owner Creator
system:administrators       -204   -204    -204
system:anyuser              -101   -204    -204
system:authuser             -102   -204    -204
anonymous                  32766   -204    -204
admin                          1   -204   32766
pat                          100   -204       1
smith                        101   -204       1
pat:friends                 -206    100     100
staff                       -207   -204       1

look at that little table. clean. immaculate. ate and left no crumbs 💅

🔥 PRIVILEGE REQUIRED 🔥

The issuer must belong to the system:administrators group. no random people in the group chat, sorry 🙈

🌟 SEE ALSO 🌟

pts(1), pts_creategroup(1), pts_createuser(1), pts_examine(1)

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okay that's the whole thing, muah 💖 this was OpenAFS, dated 2026-07-27, page PTS_LISTENTRIES(1) — go forth and list those entries, bestie 🧚✨

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