Creates a password alias.
Description
The create-password-alias subcommand creates an alias for a password.
An alias is a token of the form ${ALIAS=aliasname}. The password that corresponds to the alias name is stored in an encrypted form.
The create-password-alias subcommand can be run interactively or noninteractively.
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When run interactively, the subcommand prompts the user for the alias password and to confirm the alias password.
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When run noninteractively, the subcommand reads the alias password from a file that is passed through the
--passwordfileoption of theasadminutility. The file must contain an entry of the form{cprefix}ALIASPASSWORD=alias-password, where alias-password is the alias password. The noninteractive form of this command is suitable for use in scripts.
This subcommand is supported in remote mode only.
Options
- asadmin-options
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Options for the
asadminutility. For information about these options, see theasadminhelp page. --help-?-
Displays the help text for the subcommand.
Examples
Example 1 Creating a Password Alias Interactively
This example creates the password alias jmspassword-alias interactively.
asadmin> create-password-alias jmspassword-alias
Enter the alias password>
Enter the alias password again>
Command create-password-alias executed successfully.Example 2 Creating a Password Alias Noninteractively
This example uses the --passwordfile option of the asadmin utility to create the password alias winuser noninteractively.
$ asadmin --passwordfile aspwfile.txt create-password-alias winuser
Command create-password-alias executed successfully.The file aspwfile.txt contains the following entry to specify the alias password:
AS_ADMIN_ALIASPASSWORD=sp@rky