Sm_PolicyApi_DisableUser()

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Sm_PolicyApi_DisableUser()

Disables a user for the reason Sm_Api_Disabled_AdminDisabled. It does not change other concurrent disabling reasons.

To make this function work, the attribute for tracking disabled users must be set in the user directory (the pszDisabledAttr field of Sm_PolicyApi_UserDir_t). You can also set the attribute using the Policy Server UI.

Type

User and user state function.

Syntax

int SM_EXTERN Sm_PolicyApi_DisableUser (
   void*        pSessionHandle,
   const char*  pszUserDirOid,
   const char*  pszUserDN,
   char**       pszErrMsg
);

Parameter	I/O	Description
pSessionHandle	I	A pointer to an internal Policy Management API data structure. The structure holds information about the administrator session and the client session.
pszUserDirOid	I	A null-terminated string containing the object identifier of the user directory where the user may be found.
pszUserDN	I	The distinguished name of the user to be disabled.
pszErrMsg	O	String containing an error message if the user is not disabled successfully.

Returns

Sm_PolicyApi_Success. The user was disabled successfully.
Sm_PolicyApi_Failure. The user was not disabled successfully or memory could not be allocated to the error message string.
Sm_PolicyApi_InvalidHandle. There was no valid initialization prior to this call.
Sm_PolicyApi_NoSession. There is no valid administrator session.
Sm_PolicyApi_NoPrivilege. The administrator does not have the privilege to disable a user.
Sm_PolicyApi_InvalidOid. The user directory OID was not found.

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