The password option specifies a Tivoli® Storage Manager password.
If you do not specify this option and your administrator has set authentication to On, you are prompted for a password when you start a Tivoli Storage Manager session.
The password option is ignored when the passwordaccess option is set to generate.
This option is valid for all clients.
Place this option in the client options file (dsm.opt).
Place this option in the client user-options file (dsm.opt).
Passwords can be up to 63 character in length. Password constraints vary, depending on where the passwords are stored and managed, and depending on the version of the Tivoli Storage Manager server that your client connects to.
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~ ! @ # $ % ^ & * _ - + = ` | ( ) { } [ ] : ; < > , . ? /
Passwords are case-sensitive and are subject to more restrictions that can be imposed by LDAP policies.
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Passwords are stored in the Tivoli Storage Manager server database and are not case-sensitive.
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Passwords are stored in the Tivoli Storage Manager server database and are not case-sensitive.
On the command line, enclose a password in quotation marks if the password contains one or more special characters. The quotation marks ensure that the special characters are correctly interpreted as password characters. Without quotation marks, the special characters can be interpreted as shell escape characters, file redirection characters, or other characters that have significance to the operating system.
Quotation marks are not required when you type a password with special characters in an options file.
This option is valid only on the initial command line. It is not valid in interactive mode.