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User or Group Record Update Exits

UNIX exits are called whenever a selang command that updates user or group records is executed in the UNIX environment, regardless of whether the tool is a command‑line interface (selang) or a GUI (such as CA ControlMinder Endpoint Management).

The term update refers to creating, modifying, or deleting a user or group record. Querying a user or a group does not cause any UNIX exit to run. These are the commands that can cause a UNIX exit to run:

• newusr
• newgrp
• chusr
• chgrp
• editusr
• editgrp
• rmusr
• rmgrp

From the UNIX point of view, each exit processes runs as a root process, but from the CA ControlMinder point of view, it runs under the agent identity _seagent.