create-password-alias

create-password-alias

create-password-alias

creates a password alias

Synopsis

asadmin [asadmin-options] create-password-alias [--help]
aliasname

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.

When run interactively, the subcommand prompts the user for the alias password and to confirm the alias password.
When run noninteractively, the subcommand reads the alias password from a file that is passed through the --passwordfile option of the asadmin(1M) utility. 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: Options for the asadmin utility. For information about these options, see the asadmin(1M) help page.
--help
-?: Displays the help text for the subcommand.

Operands

aliasname: Your choice of name for the password alias.

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

Exit Status

0: command executed successfully
1: error in executing the command