USER_PASSWORD - UEMLoad configuration option

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Apr 10, 2013
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Description

The USER_PASSWORD option specifies the password for the user account identified by the USER_ID option.

This is an alternative to specifying the password from a plain text or encrypted user file.

UEM Server uses this information to execute an event handler process in the security context of the specified user account. An event-driven UEM Server requires this information be stored in an event handler record if the USER_SECURITY option is enabled in the UEM Server configuration. This is the only way that an event-driven UEM Server can access this information. Because an event-driven UEM Server is started without user interaction, it cannot prompt for user account information if it is required but not provided.

Note

If UEMLoad specifies an encrypted file (via USER_FILE_ENCRYPTED), it extracts the -pwd value from that file and stores it in the USER_PASSWORD field. However, UEMLoad also saves a reference to the encrypted file itself.

When UEM Server executes a process on behalf of the event handler, it re-extracts the -pwd option from the file. This means that if the contents of the encrypted file change after the UEMLoad, the stored USER_PASSWORD may not match the actual USER_PASSWORD that UEM Server uses when it executes a secured process on behalf of that event handler.

Usage

Specification Method

Parameter / Value

IBM i

HP NonStop

UNIX

Windows

z/OS

Command Line, Short Form

-w password

(tick)

(tick)

Command Line, Long Form

-pwd password

(tick)

(tick)

Definition File Keyword

pwd password

OR

password password

(tick)

(tick)

Value

password is the password for the user account.