Changes the value of a modifiable, single-valued attribute (including application-defined attributes) of an object entry. This task is usually accomplished through the client application. Use a comma to separate attributes. Enclose in parentheses any value that has multiple parts separated by spaces. SYNOPSIS SET OBJECT object-name attribute-name [=] attribute-value Arguments object-name The full name of the object entry. Specify your own attribute name or one of the DECdns-defined attributes. attribute-name The name of the attribute to be modified. attribute-value The value of the attribute to be modified. You can express the values of application-defined attributes as quoted strings, "ps"; hex strings, %x FF00EE; or concatenations of them in parentheses (%x0103 "ps"). Description This command changes the value of a modifiable, single-valued attribute (including application-defined attributes) of an object entry. This task is usually accomplished through the client application. Use a comma to separate attributes. ACCESS RIGHTS You must have write access to the object entry whose attribute you intend to modify or have control access to the parent directory.
1 – example
The following command changes the .sales_records attribute value to 2. dns> set object .sales_records Q1 %x2