In Windows this is so that the password can be stored in the registry,
once stored you do not have to reenter it. when the client is installed
and configured issue any generic command from the cli, such as "dsmc q
tsm", it will prompt you for the password, enter it and you are set.
Additionally, when the password expires, as defined on the TSM server it
will be updated on the client.

~Rick
JAX FL

-----Original Message-----
From: ADSM: Dist Stor Manager [mailto:ADSM-L AT VM.MARIST DOT EDU] On Behalf Of
Roger Deschner
Sent: Thursday, April 01, 2010 5:16 PM
To: ADSM-L AT VM.MARIST DOT EDU
Subject: [ADSM-L] Why need password to create client scheduler?

If PASSWORDACCESS GENERATE is in effect and has been initialized with
the node password successfully encrypted and stored, and if you then go
to create a scheduler, why do you need to give the node password again?

This sometimes means, that if the user no longer knows their password,
that we have to change their password for them just so they can create a
scheduler.

Is there a way around this? Perhaps some creative use of the dsmcutil
program?

Roger Deschner      University of Illinois at Chicago     rogerd AT uic DOT edu
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