NetWorker Authentication
The NetWorker user account passwords are stored in the NetWorker server's authentication (authc) service. Typically, the NetWorker server is its own authc server; however, if a single NetWorker Management Console (NMC) is managing several NetWorker servers, there is a primary authc server used for all authentication request.
On the NMC server, check the
gstd.conf file for the
authsvc_hostname.
- Windows: C:\Program Files\EMC NetWorker\Management\GST\etc\gstd.conf
- Linux: /opt/lgtonmc/etc/gstd.conf
[root@nmcserver ~]# cat /opt/lgtonmc/etc/gstd.conf | grep hostname
string authsvc_hostname = "nwserver-a1.emclab.local";
Disabling Password Expiration
1. On the NetWorker authentication server, open an admin or root command prompt.
2. Get the User ID of the user that you want to update:
authc_mgmt -u administrator -e find-all-users
Note: You will be prompted to enter the NetWorker Administrator password after entering the command.
authc_mgmt -u administrator -e find-all-users
The query returns 5 records.
User Id User Name
1000 administrator
1001 svc_nmc_dpa-srv
1002 root
1003 NW9DPAAgent
1004 TestUser
3. Check the current options of the user:
authc_mgmt -u administrator -e find-user-options -D user-options-user-id=####
authc_mgmt -u administrator -e find-user-options -D user-options-user-id=1004
Enter password:
User Options Id : 5
User Id : 1004
Must Change Password : false
Password Never Expires: false
4. Update the user account to set "Password Never Expires" to true:
authc_mgmt -u administrator -e update-user-options -D user-options-user-id=#### -D user-options-password-never-expires="true"
authc_mgmt -u administrator -e update-user-options -D user-options-user-id=1004 -D user-options-password-never-expires="true"
Enter password:
User Options for User 1,004 are updated successfully.
5. Verify that the settings have changed:
authc_mgmt -u administrator -e find-user-options -D user-options-user-id=####