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.TH add_alias 1 "26 Jun 1990"
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.SH NAME
add_alias \- adding aliases to the database
.br
delete_alias \- deleting aliases from the database
.br
alias_chk \- checking aliases in the database
.SH SYNOPSIS
.in +.5i
.B \*(SDadd_alias
\% <alias_name>
\% <object>
.br
.B \*(SDdel_alias
\% <alias_name>
.br
.B \*(SDalias_chk
\% <object>
.in -.5i
.SH DESCRIPTION
New management functions in the management dish.
.br
Add_alias attempts to add the first argument to the database as an 
alias to the second argument.
.br

.br
Del_alias removes the alias specified.
.br

.br
Alias_chk checks the object specified or checks all aliases below the object
specified if the object is a leaf or not. It checks to see if and only if
the four types of object that are allowed are present, that the aliased
object points back to this alias, and that the schema of the aliased object
fits.
.LP
Examples of valid arguments are:
.in +.5i
add_alias cn=newalias cn=incads
.br
add_alias cn=newalias <sequence number>
.br
add_alias cn=newalias <DN> (ie @c=GB@o=Brunel)
.br

.br
del_alias cn=newalias
.br
del_alias 1
.br
del_alias <DN> (ie @c=GB@o=Brunel)
.br

.br
alias_chk cn=newalias
.br
alias_chk 1
.br
alias_chk <DN> (ie @c=GB@o=Cambridge University)
.br
.in -.5i
.SH "SEE ALSO"
.br
dish(1)
.br
\fIThe ISO Development Environment: User's Manual, Volume 5: QUIPU\fR
.SH AUTHOR
Steve Titcombe, UCL 1991