The following table provides a summary of the command-line programs for access control and privilege management that are installed with the Centrify Agent for *NIX. You can define command rights for these programs to grant permission to run them to other users.
Many of the command-line programs require administrative privileges or must run using root to perform privileged operations. The command line programs allow you to perform administrative tasks-such as join or leave a domain or generate diagnostic information-directly in a UNIX shell. In some cases, however, there are operations that you must or prefer to perform locally on a managed computer by executing command‑line programs. Most administrative tasks can be performed using Access Manager on a Windows computer or by using ADEdit commands or scripts from a Centrify-managed computer that has access to the Active Directory domain controller. Perform administrative tasks using commands