% SPLINTER-ROLE-UPDATE(1) Cargill, Incorporated | Splinter Commands

NAME

splinter-role-update — Updates a role on a Splinter node

SYNOPSIS

splinter role update [FLAGS] [OPTIONS] ROLE-ID

DESCRIPTION

Updates an existing role used for accessing the Splinter REST API. This command allows the user to change the role’s display name or set of permissions.

FLAGS

-n, --dry-run

Validate the command without performing the role update

-h, --help

Prints help information

-q, --quiet

Decrease verbosity (the opposite of -v). When specified, only errors or warnings will be output.

-V, --version

Prints version information

-v

Increases verbosity (the opposite of -q). Specify multiple times for more output.

--rm-all

Remove all of the permissions currently associated with the role.

-f, --force

Ignore errors based on duplicate values or adding and removing the same permission.

OPTIONS

-k, --key PRIVATE-KEY-FILE

Specifies the private signing key (either a file path or the name of a .priv file in $HOME/.splinter/keys).

-U, --url URL

Specifies the URL for the splinterd REST API. The URL is required unless $SPLINTER_REST_API_URL is set.

-D, --display DISPLAY-NAME

Specifies the display name for the created role.

--add-perm PERMISSION

Specifies a permission to be add to the role. Specify multiple times for more permissions.

--rm-perm PERMISSION

Specifies a permission to be removed from the role. Specify multiple times for more permissions.

ARGUMENTS

ROLE-ID

Specify the role ID of the role to be updated.

EXAMPLES

This example updates the circuit_admin role on a splinter node.

• The role has ID circuit_admin.
• The role has a display name of "Circuit Admin"
• The role has the permissions circuit read and write
• The role will be updated to have the permission status.read

$ splinter role update \
  --url URL-of-splinterd-REST-API \
  --add-perm status.read \
  circuit_admin

This can be verified by using the role show command:

$ splinter role show \
  --url URL-of-splinterd-REST-API \
  circuit_admin
ID: circuit_admin
    Name: Circuit Administrator
    Permissions:
        circuit.read
        circuit.write
        status.read

ENVIRONMENT VARIABLES

SPLINTER_REST_API_URL

URL for the splinterd REST API. (See -U, --url.)

SEE ALSO

| splinter-role-create(1) | splinter-role-delete(1) | splinter-role-list(1) | splinter-role-show(1) | | Splinter documentation: https://www.splinter.dev/docs/0.7/