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Tivoli Storage Manager for NetWare Backup-Archive Client Installation and User's Guide


Tivoli Storage Manager Client Authentication

When using the native backup-archive GUI or command line clients, or the Web client, you can logon using a nodename and password or administrative user ID and password. Tivoli Storage Manager prompts for your user ID and compares it to the configured nodename. If they match, Tivoli Storage Manager attempts to authenticate the user ID as a nodename. If the authentication fails or if the user ID does not match the configured nodename, the client attempts to authenticate the user ID as an administrative user ID.

To use an administrative user ID with any of the backup-archive clients, the user ID must have one of the following authorities:

To use the Web Client, you need to have an administrative user ID with client access authority over the configured nodename. From the Web Client, you can back up and restore files on the client machine you are remotely accessing. However, you cannot use a remote Web Client to restore files to your local machine. With client access authority you do not have physical access to the data. If you want access to the Web Client for your own use, but wish to prevent administrators with client access authority from accessing your machine remotely, specify the revokeremoteaccess option in your options file. See Revokeremoteaccess for more information

Client access authority is not sufficient to access the backup-archive client and command line client. You must possess at least client owner authority.

You can use the virtualnodename option to temporarily access your node's data from another machine. This option differs from the nodename option in that, if passwordaccess=generate is specified along with the virtualnodename option, the password is not stored on the local machine. If you specify the nodename option, the password is stored on the local machine. See Virtualnodename for more information about the virtualnodename option.


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