In message 20021115162758.A25837@bart.esiee.fr you wrote:

is there a way not to type the root passwd in the command line as is this cleartext and I do not want someone else look at THIS on the filer console ?

Create a new user using filer "useradmin useradd", give the new user a password, and then "ndmpd password" on that new user. What you see will be usable for ndmp but not to log-in on the filer.

Example: I create the user "not_root" and get the special ndmp password like this:

collin1> useradmin useradd -c "don't show root password" not_root New password: Retype new password: User <not_root> added. collin1> Fri Nov 15 16:47:25 GMT [rc:info]: User <not_root> added

collin1> ndmpd password not_root password dWTIEwjulkykK8lp collin1>

I can use "ndmpcopy -sa not_root:dWTIEwjulkykK8lp ..." to copy something from this filer.

Although anybody seeing this "not_root:dWTIEwjulkykK8lp" will be able to execute whatever NDMP operation s/he desires on THIS filer, this password is not usable on other filers in the generic case. That is, even if you create the same username on multiple filers, and give them all the same password, the output of "ndmpd password not_root" will usually differ.

hth,

On Fri, Nov 15, 2002 at 04:27:58PM +0100, Frank Bonnet wrote:

Hi

Following my last post I used ndmpcopy to copy data from one filer to another one.

Things ran pretty well

I have a question regarding the -sa and -da options is there a way not to type the root passwd in the command line as is this cleartext and I do not want someone else look at THIS on the filer console ?

I was told that in 6.4 version there will be an option to submit encrypted string for a password.

Igor