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Native Policy Model Repositories

You can store all native environment user and group object types in the PMDB. By storing this information in the PMDB, you can receive information about objects using show commands (such as show user or show group). The returned objects are an image of the actual objects that are defined in Windows or UNIX subscribers.

After connecting to a Policy Model, a user can choose the following environments:

• AC
• Native
• NT
• UNIX
• Config

Note: Native operates exactly as Windows while you are working in a Windows operating system, or exactly as UNIX while you are working on a UNIX operating system.

To use native environment repositories, use the following commands:

• Enter the following commands at the selang prompt:

  env NT; find
  

  Your results list all the native environment object types.

  Note: For descriptions of these object types, see the Windows environment classes and properties in the Reference Guide.

• Enter the following commands to receive a list of NT and Active Directory USER properties:

  env NT; ruler user
  

• Enter the following commands to receive a list of NT and Active Directory GROUP properties:

  env NT; ruler group
  

If a Policy Model is a subscriber of another (parent) Policy Model, it receives data from a parent through propagation and saves in the database all user and group properties, so you can see them and change them.

Note: For more information, see the sepmd utility in the Reference Guide.