> Hi!
>
> Here's a question concerning automated rollout of AIX clients:
>
> After switching a client to "passwordaccess generate", you have to type in
> the password manually one more time. The client then stores the scrambled
> password in /etc/security/adsm (for the AIX platform) and in the future
> will no longer ask for it.
>
> In order to force this kind of password processing during the rollout of
> the client, we inserted into the rollout procedure (a ksh script started
on
> the client) a "dummy" command that we thought would do an initial login to
> the server, e.g.
>
> dsmc query backup / -servername=OURADSM -password=initial
>
> However we observed that this command still asks for a password from the
> keyboard inspite of the password option. Or it aborts with an
> authentication failure if it runs detached from the ternimal. We also
tried
> input redirection, but that did not work either. Does anybody know a
> solution? For several reasons we do not like to switch to open
registration
> and let the users do the job.
>
> Regards,
> Michael Abel