6. Changing your TSM password
The TSM password can be changed at any time. The initial password, given to you at registration for TSM Backup, should be changed as soon as the TSM client has logged into the TSM server. Thereafter, it should be changed at regular intervals and at least once a year as it expires after this interval. To this end, users are contacted, by mail, at the beginning of the last calendar month before their password expires, advising that the password should be changed.
6.1. Allowable passwords
Remember that the TSM password represents the security of your backups. Passwords should be strong and unguessable. TSM passwords are case-independent. In addition to letters and digits they can contain the characters + - _ . & (plus, minus, underscore, point, ampersand) and must be between 6 and 63 characters long.
6.2. Using the Command Line Interface (CLI)
To use the CLI to change the TSM password you must be the root user.
dsmc tsm> set password [oldpassword] [newpassword]
6.3. Using the GUI
In the GUI (which must be running as root), from the
[Utilities] menu choose the [Change Password]
option.
This will then display a change password dialog box.
Enter your password into Current password. Then enter your
new password into New password and again into
Verify password. Once this has been done quit the TSM
session and restart it to check that the new password has been set.
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