Use the tacmd tepsLogin command to log on to the Tivoli Enterprise Portal Server.

where:

-s|--server

Specifies the Tivoli® Enterprise Portal Server host name to connect to.

-u|--username

Specifies the user name to log on to the Tivoli Enterprise Portal Server. The software prompts you for the user name if you do not specify one.

-p|--password

Specifies the password for user authentication. The software prompts you for the password if you do not specify one.

-t|--timeout

Specifies the maximum number of minutes that can elapse between invocations of the tacmd tepsLogin command before the user is denied access to the Teps credentials file. The default timeout is 15 minutes. The maximum timeout is 1440 minutes (24 hours).

The following example shows how to log in on the command line with a specific user name. The user is prompted to enter a password. The log in is valid for 24 hours (1,440 minutes):

C:\IBM\ITM\bin>tacmd tepslogin -s lever -u sysadmin -t 1440

 Password?
 KUICTL001I Validating user credentials...

KUIC00007I: User sysadmin logged on to server on http://lever:1920.

The following example shows how to log in with only the server and time specified. The user is prompted to enter a user name and a password. The log in is valid for 1 hour (60 minutes).

C:\IBM\ITM\bin>tacmd tepslogin -s lever  -t 60

 Username?  sysadmin

 Password?
 KUICTL001I Validating user credentials...

KUIC00007I: User sysadmin logged on to server on http://lever:1920.

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