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Tivoli Space Manager for UNIX Using the Hierarchical Storage Management Clients


Changing your Password

Note:
This task is optional.

If you installed the HSM client on your client node and you require a TSM password, set the passwordaccess option to generate in your dsm.sys file. Set the mailprog option in your dsm.sys file to send you the password each time it generates a new one. Tivoli Storage Manager encrypts and stores your password locally, and automatically generates a new password for your client node each time it expires. You are not prompted for a TSM password.

The backup-archive client and the HSM client use the same password when both clients contact the same TSM server. One password is required for each TSM server that your client node contacts for services.

If you specify a migration server on the migrateserver option in your dsm.sys file, the password that you set applies to the migration server.

If you specify a default server on the defaultserver option in your dsm.sys file and you do not specify a migration server on the migrateserver option, the password that you set applies to the default server.

If you do not specify either a migration server or a default server on either the migrateserver option or the defaultserver option, the password that you set applies to the named server in the first stanza of your dsm.sys file.

To change your password from the GUI:

  1. Click Utilities on the menu bar.
  2. Click Change Password. The Change Password window displays.
  3. Enter your current TSM password in the Current password field.
  4. Enter a new password in the New password field.
  5. Enter the new password again in the Re-enter new password field.
  6. Click OK. The TSM client updates your password for the server that your client node contacts for space management services.
Note:
To change your TSM password from the command line, enter:
   dsmsetpw oldpw newpw

Replace oldpw newpw with your old and new passwords.


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