Andy's right... the first time you use ADSM after changing PASSWORDACCESS to
GENERATE, you need to go in to ADSM interactively... it will prompt you for
the password.  After that, everything should work fine.  Don't forget to
recycle your DSMC SCHEDULE process also.

Tim Pittson

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From: owner-adsm-l
To: Multiple recipients of list ADSM-L
Subject: Re: password generate / client
Date: Tuesday, December 12, 1995 12:02PM

Richard Alexander asks:

> We setup the client on an ADSM server, i.e. the server and client
> are running on the same node, with the default password setting
> of prompt.  We now want to change it to generate.
> Changing the value in /usr/lpp/adsm/bin/dsm.sys does not do it.
>
> Is there some magic for making this take effect?
>
> Richard
>

I don't have any experience with this setting, but I'll take a shot at it:

1) After updating the DSM.SYS file, did you shut down and restart ADSM?
   Changes to the option files don't take effect until you restart ADSM.

2) I suspect you'll be asked once for the password, after which time it
   will be encrypted to a file, and read from that file thereafter.

3) Do you have the latest AIX client maintenance? I don't know whether there
   were any prior problems with the PASSWORDACCESS GENERATE option, but
   having the latest code is usually a good idea.

No magic, just some wild guesses.

Andy Raibeck
Connecticut Mutual
203-987-3521