Hello,
this would not solve all security problems. If a user does a "ps -elf"
command on a unix system he can see the whole command line including the
password.
Best regards
Gerhard
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Lindsey Thomson <horse00 AT US.IBM DOT COM>
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14.02.2002 05:57
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        Thema:  Re: How do you secure the passwd in a TSM admin command run a 
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script


Hi *,
 Saw this posted from: http://www.autovault.org/discus/index.html

###########################
root owns the passwd file w/perms 600 or such:
.
PASSWORD='cat /home/root/adsmpw'
"dsmadmc -id=USERID -pass=$PASSWORD "macro macroname"
###########################

HTH
lt
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