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Tivoli Storage Manager for UNIX Backup-Archive Clients Installation and User's Guide

Passwordaccess

Authorized User

The passwordaccess option specifies whether you want to generate your password automatically or set as a user prompt. Your administrator can require a password for your client node by enabling the authentication feature. Ask your administrator if a password is required for your client node.

If a password is required, you can choose to:

Use the passworddir option in your client system options file dsm.sys to specify the directory location in which to store the encrypted password file. The default directory location depends on how the client was installed.

When the passwordaccess option is set to generate and you specify the password option, the password option is ignored.

Set the passwordaccess option to generate in the following situations:

Supported Clients

This option is valid for all UNIX clients.

Options File

Place this option in the client system options file dsm.sys within a server stanza.

Syntax

                  .-prompt---.
>>-PASSWORDAccess-+----------+---------------------------------><
                  '-generate-'
 
 

Parameters

prompt
You are prompted for your workstation password each time a client connects to the server. This is the default.

To keep your client node password secure, enter commands without the password and wait for Tivoli Storage Manager to prompt you for the password.

Each user must know the Tivoli Storage Manager password for your client node. Any user who knows the password for your client node can gain access to all backups and archives that originate from your client node. For example:

API applications must supply the password when a session is initiated. The application is responsible for obtaining the password.

generate
Encrypts and stores your password locally and generates a new password when the old password expires. An encrypted password is kept on your workstation when a session starts.

A password prompt displays when registering a workstation with a server using open registration or if your administrator changes your password manually.

You can use the mailprog option to specify the program and user ID where you want to send the new password each time the old password expires.

When logging in locally, users do not need to know the Tivoli Storage Manager password for the client node. However, by using the nodename option at a remote node, users can access files they own and files to which another user grants access. If you change the name of your client node (using the nodename option in the dsm.sys file, and you specify the same node name in the dsm.opt file, Tivoli Storage Manager prompts the users for the client node password. If a user enters the correct password, the user becomes a virtual root user. The same is true if a user specifies the same node name using the nodename option with a command.

Examples

Options file:
passwordaccess generate

Command line:
-passwordaccess=generate

This option is valid only on the initial command line. It is not valid in interactive mode.


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