Sun Microsystems 820433510 manual Multimode Command

			The Multimode Command
TABLE C–1Remote Commands Required Options			(Continued)
	Option	Definition
	--passwordfile	The --passwordfile option specifies the name of a file containing the password
		entries in a specific format. The entry for the password must have the AS_ADMIN_
		prefix followed by the password name in uppercase letters.
		For example, to specify the domain administration server password, use an entry with
		the following format: AS_ADMIN_PASSWORD=password, where password is the actual
		administrator password. Other passwords that can be specified include
		AS_ADMIN_MAPPEDPASSWORD, AS_ADMIN_USERPASSWORD, and
		AS_ADMIN_ALIASPASSWORD.
		All remote commands must specify the admin password to authenticate to the
		domain administration server, either through--passwordfile or asadmin login, or
		interactively on the command prompt. The asadmin login command can be used
		only to specify the admin password. For other passwords, that must be specified for
		remote commands, use the --passwordfile or enter them at the command prompt.
		If you have authenticated to a domain using the asadmin login command, then you
		need not specify the admin password through the --passwordfile option on
		subsequent operations to this particular domain. However, this is applicable only to
		AS_ADMIN_PASSWORD option. You will still need to provide the other passwords, for
		example, AS_ADMIN_USERPASSWORD, as and when required by individual commands,
		such as update-file-user.
		For security reasons, passwords specified as an environment variable will not be read
		by asadmin.
	--secure	If set to true, uses SSL/TLS to communicate with the domain administration server.
	--interactive	If set to true (default), only the required password options are prompted.
	--terse	Indicates that any output data must be very concise, typically avoiding
		human-friendly sentences and favoring well-formatted data for consumption by a
		script. Default is false.
	--echo	Setting to true will echo the command line statement on the standard output. Default
		is false.
	--help	Displays the help text for the command.

The Multimode Command

Use the multimode command to process the asadmin commands. The command-line interface will prompt you for a command, execute that command, display the results of the command, and then prompt you for the next command. Additionally, all the asadmin option names set in this mode are used for all the subsequent commands. You can set your environment and run commands until you exit multimode by typing “exit” or “quit.” You can also provide commands by passing a previously prepared list of commands from a file or standard input (pipe). You can

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