Finding a Principal

There are two ways to search for a principal:

Click List All to display a list of principals of the current realm in the List of Principals dialog box. This dialog box can display upto 1,000 principals.
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Click Search to display a list of principals of the current realm that match the search criteria entered in the Search String field. The List of Principals dialog box can display upto 1,000 principals.

To search for a principal

On the Principals tab of the kadminl_ui window, select the principal's realm.
Enter the search criteria for the principal in the Search String field. The search string can contain wild cards.
Click Search to display the principal names from the current realm that match your search criteria.
A list of up to 1,000 names from the current realm that match your search criteria appears in the List of Principals dialog box.
If you cannot find the principal name you want in the list, then refine your search criteria.

Given below are some valuable tips that will help you in refining your search criteria.

Search Criteria

The search characters are:

*

Represents any string of characters, including the "/" and no characters. For example,

*/admin searches for all principal names with an admin instance.

*test* searches for all principals containing the characters test.

?

Each ? represents a single character, except for "/". For example,

test? searches for all principal names containing the characters test, followed by a single character.

test?? searches for all principal names containing the characters test, followed by any two characters.

[...]

Represents any one character from the set, except "/". For example,

[abc]* searches for all principal names starting with a, b or c.

The following characters have a special meaning with the [...] construct:

!

Represents an exclusion when used immediately after the "[".

For example,

[!abc]* searches for all principal names that start with any characters other than a, b or c.

When used immediately for the "[" or "[!", this character is matched literally. The next "]" character is used as the end-of-set character.

For example,

[]a]* searches for all principal names that start with the "]" or a.

-

Represents a range of characters. When used immediately after the "[" or "[!", or as the last character is the set, this character is matched literally. For example:

test [1-9] searches for all principal names starting with the characters test, followed by an one number is the range 1 through 9.

[abc-] searches for all principal names starting with a, b, c or, "-".

:

Represents the start of a character class descriptor when used immediately after the "[" or "[!". Otherwise it is matched literally.

The following character classes are supported:

[:alnum:] [:alpha:] [:cntrl:] [:digit:] [:graph:] [:lower:] [:print:] [:punct:] [:space:] [:upper:] [:xdigit:]

{,...}

Represents any on string of characters from the set. Nesting of these constructs is allowed in each of the strings. The "/" character can be matched. Commas in the strings must be deleted with a backslash.

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