That is very interesting.  In the US government has some "acts" that are 
concerned with privacy.  There is HIPAA for health care
industry patient data protection and GLBA for the financial industry consumer 
data protection.

Is anyone using TSM to protect data that is affected by either HIPAA or GLBA?  
If so, have you taken any specific measures to comply
with the requirements.

sal

Sal Mangiapane
Vital Data Systems, LLC

>
> Hello,
> I always thought that a tsm admin does not have access to client data. I
> think I learned something new.
> Calling dsmc or dsm with -node=tarzan and specifying a valid admin id and
> password (system privilege) gives access to node tarzan's data. At least it
> is possible to list the files. I haven't tried to restore data. This is
> indeed documented. However, I would prefer if there were a message in the
> activity log saying that admin id was used.
> Am I wrong? Could someone explain this feature in more detail?
>
> Best regards
> Gerhard
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