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URL: http://<db.host>:<db.port>/show/security
Shows security information relating to users and/or roles. If the caller is not a system administrator, only information relating to the caller and their roles is returned.

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Input Parameter Description

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names
array of strings
A list of names of users and/or roles about which security information is requested. If none are provided, information about all users and roles will be returned.
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options
map of string to strings
Optional parameters.The default value is an empty map ( {} ).

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Output Parameter Description

The Kinetica server embeds the endpoint response inside a standard response structure which contains status information and the actual response to the query. Here is a description of the various fields of the wrapper:
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status
String
‘OK’ or ‘ERROR’
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message
String
Empty if success or an error message
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data_type
String
‘show_security_response’ or ‘none’ in case of an error
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data
String
Empty string
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data_str
JSON or String
This embedded JSON represents the result of the /show/security endpoint:Empty string in case of an error.