Segment Trait Error

Understanding the SegmentTraitError exception.

 

When any unknown Segment-Trait Combination is provided in the parameters to a Non-Profile Extract request, a SegmentTraitError will be raised to indicate that the request cannot be built. A SegmentTraitError can be handled as follows.

Python Script

from pyracf import UserAdmin
from pyracf import SegmentError

user_admin = UserAdmin()
traits = {
    "base:name": "Squidward",
    "base:passwrd": "K29521IO",
    "base:owner": "leonard",
    "base:special": False,
    "base:operations": True,
    "omvs:uid": 2424,
    "omvs:home": "/u/squidwrd",
    "omvs:program": "/bin/sh",
}

try:
    user_admin.alter("squidwrd", traits=traits)
except SegmentTraitError as e:
    print(e.message)

Console Output

Unable to build Security Request.

'base:passwrd' is not a known segment-trait combination for 'user'.
'ovms:home' is not a known segment-trait combination for 'user'.
'ovms:program' is not a known segment-trait combination for 'user'.