Changing your password

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Your IBM® Storage Protect administrator can require you to use a password to connect to the server.

About this task

The backup-archive client prompts you for the password if one is required. Contact your IBM Storage Protect administrator if you do not know your password.

Important: The password discussed in this topic is different than the password used for encrypting files.

Procedure

To change your password from the GUI:

  1. Mac OS X operating systems On Mac OS X clients, start the backup-archive client with IBM Storage Protect Tools for Administrators.
  2. Windows operating systemsLinux operating systemsOracle Solaris operating systemsAIX operating systemsMac OS X operating systems From the main window, open the Utilities menu and select Change password.
  3. Enter your current and new passwords, and enter your new password again in the Verify password field.
  4. Click Change.

Results

To change your password from the command-line client, enter this command:

Windows operating systemsLinux operating systemsOracle Solaris operating systemsAIX operating systemsMac OS X operating systemsFor UNIX, Linux®, and Windows clients:
   dsmc set password
Mac OS X operating systemsFor Mac OS X clients, enter this command to change your password from the command-line client:
   sudo dsmc set password

Then, enter your old and new passwords when prompted.

Passwords can be up to 63 character in length. Password constraints vary, depending on where the passwords are stored and managed, and depending on the version of the IBM Storage Protect server that your client connects to.

If your IBM Storage Protect server is at version 6.3.3 or later, and if you use an LDAP directory server to authenticate passwords
Use any of the following characters to create a password:
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 . ! @ # $ % ^ & * _ - + = ` ( ) 
| { } [ ] : ; < > , ? / ~

Passwords are case-sensitive and are subject to more restrictions that can be imposed by LDAP policies.

If your IBM Storage Protect server is at version 6.3.3 or later, and if you do not use an LDAP directory server to authenticate passwords
Use any of the following characters to create a password:
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 . ! @ # $ % ^ & * _ - + = ` ( ) 
| { } [ ] : ; < > , ? / ~

Passwords are stored in the IBM Storage Protect server database. Starting with IBM Storage Protect 8.1.16, passwords are case-sensitive if SESSIONSECURITY=STRICT. The passwords are not case-sensitive if SESSIONSECURITY=TRANSITIONAL.

If your IBM Storage Protect server is earlier than version 6.3.3
Use any of the following characters to create a password:
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
_ - & + .

Passwords are stored in the IBM Storage Protect server database and are not case-sensitive.

Remember:

On the command line, 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.

Windows operating systems
On Windows systems:
Enclose the command parameters in quotation marks (").
Command-line example:
dsmc set password "t67@#$%^&" "pass2><w0rd"
Oracle Solaris operating systemsLinux operating systemsAIX operating systems
On AIX®, Linux, and Solaris systems:
Enclose the command parameters in single quotation marks (').
Command-line example:
dsmc set password -type=vmguest 'Win 2012 SQL' 'tsml2dag\administrator' '7@#$%^&7'

Quotation marks are not required when you type a password with special characters in an options file.