password command

Use the password command to create a password or change an existing password on the IBM® Spectrum Protect server.

You are prompted to enter both the old and new passwords, if you do not provide them, when you use this utility to change the password.

Be aware of the following requirements that are based on the value of the passwordaccess setting in the dsm.sys file:

passwordaccess prompt: Run the tdpoconf password command as the root user. This command creates an encrypted password file, TDPO.Nodename. The nodename value is the value that is specified by the tdpo_node option in the Data Protection for Oracle options file specified with the TDPO_OPTFILE variable. This file is in the directory that is specified by the tdpo_pswdpath option. If the tdpo_pswdpath option is not specified, the TDPO.Nodename file is placed in the Data Protection for Oracle installation directory. Make sure that the TDPO.Nodename file can be read by the Oracle user that runs the backup.
passwordaccess generate: Run the tdpoconf password command as the Oracle user. The password is placed in the file, TSM.PWD, and is owned by the Oracle user. This file is created in the directory that is specified by the passworddir option that is defined in the dsm.sys file. Do not specify the tdpo_node option in the tdpo.opt file. Data Protection for Oracle uses the value of the nodename option that is specified in the dsm.sys file. If the tdpo_pswdpath option is specified in the tdpo.opt file, it is ignored. For more information, see the description of the tdpo_pswdpath option in Available Data Protection for Oracle options.

Syntax


>>-TDPOCONF--PASSWord--+----------------------------------+----->
                       '-oldnodepassword--newnodepassword-'   

>--+-----------------------------------------+-----------------><
   |                  .-installed tdpo.opt-. |   
   '- -TDPO_OPTFILE=--+--------------------+-'   
                      '-pathname-----------'

Optional parameters

oldnodepassword

Specifies the current (old) password you want to change.

newnodepassword

Specifies the new password.

The password is not case-sensitive and can be composed of 1 to 63 of the following characters:

a b c d e f g h i j k l m n o p q r s t u v w x y z
A B C D E F G H I J K L M N O P Q R S T U V W X Y Z
0 1 2 3 4 5 6 7 8 9
~ ! @ # $ % ^ & * _ - + = ` | ( ) { } [ ] : ; < > , . ? /

Enclose all parameters that contain one or more special characters in quotation marks. Without quotation marks, the special characters can be interpreted as shell escape characters, file redirection characters, or other characters that have significance to the operating system.

-TDPO_OPTFILE=pathname

This parameter specifies the fully qualified path name to the tdpo.opt file. If you choose not to specify this option, the default path is used.

Example

An output example of the tdpoconf password oldnodepassword newnodepassword command is provided:

***************************************************************
*  IBM Spectrum Protect for Databases Utility                 *
*  Password file initialization/update program                *
*                                                             *
***************************************************************

ANU0260I Password successfully changed.