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

Set Password

Authorized User

The set password command changes the Tivoli Storage Manager password for your workstation. If you omit the old and new passwords when you enter the set password command, you are prompted once for the old password and twice for the new password.

A password is not case-sensitive, and it can be as many as 63 characters. Valid characters are:

a-z
Any letter, a through z, upper or lower-case
0-9
Any number, 0 through 9
+
Plus
.
Period
_
Underscore
-
Hyphen
&
Ampersand

Supported Clients

This command is valid for all UNIX clients.

Syntax

>>-SET Password--+--------------+--+----------+----------------><
                 '- oldpw newpw-'  '- options-'
 
 

Parameters

oldpw
Specifies the current password for your workstation.

newpw
Specifies the new password for your workstation.

options
Select any valid common option. For more information, see Chapter 9, Setting Processing Options.

Examples

The following is an example of using the set password command.

Task
Change your password from osecret to nsecret.

Command: set password osecret nsecret


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