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Top Forums Shell Programming and Scripting ERROR-> test: argument expected , what does it mean? Post 302089981 by bubeshj on Thursday 21st of September 2006 07:02:53 PM
Old 09-21-2006
Comparing Character in String

if [expr $puma ="prod"]
then
pass="null"
echo $pass
fi
What is wrong with this?
I want to check if variable pua has the value prod and if equal assign pass a value of null (string).
this is the error i got.
thanks,
bubeshj
 

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sasl_server_userdb_checkpass_t(3SASL)	      Simple Authentication Security Layer Library Functions	     sasl_server_userdb_checkpass_t(3SASL)

NAME
sasl_server_userdb_checkpass_t - plaintext password verification callback function SYNOPSIS
cc [ flag ... ] file ... -lsasl [ library ... ] #include <sasl/sasl.h> int sasl_sasl_server_userdb_checkpass_t(sasl_conn_t *conn, void *context, const char *user, const char *pass, unsigned passlen, struct propctx *propctx); DESCRIPTION
Use the sasl_sasl_server_userdb_checkpass_t() callback function to verify a plaintext password against the callback supplier's user data- base. Verification allows additional ways to encode the userPassword property. PARAMETERS
conn The SASL connection context. context The context from the callback record. user A null-terminated user name with user@realm syntax. pass The password to check. This string cannot be null-terminated. passlen The length of pass. propctx The property context to fill in with userPassword. RETURN VALUES
Like other SASL callback functions, sasl_server_userdb_checkpass_t() returns an integer that corresponds to a SASL error code. See <sasl.h> for a complete list of SASL error codes. ERRORS
SASL_OK The call to sasl_server_userdb_checkpass_t() was successful. See sasl_errors(3SASL) for information on SASL error codes. ATTRIBUTES
See attributes(5) for descriptions of the following attributes: +-----------------------------+-----------------------------+ | ATTRIBUTE TYPE | ATTRIBUTE VALUE | +-----------------------------+-----------------------------+ |Availability |SUNWlibsasl | +-----------------------------+-----------------------------+ |Interface Stability |Evolving | +-----------------------------+-----------------------------+ |MT-Level |MT-Safe | +-----------------------------+-----------------------------+ SEE ALSO
sasl_errors(3SASL), attributes(5) SunOS 5.11 27 Oct 2003 sasl_server_userdb_checkpass_t(3SASL)
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