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Selecting an Administrative Password
The BEA Tuxedo system uses an administrative password to protect the machine on which it is installed from administrative requests and operations (such as tmboot(1)) that are not authorized. Whenever administrative communications arrive on this machine through the tlisten(1) and wlisten(1) gateway processes, the BEA Tuxedo system authenticates them by means of the password.
You assign an administrative password to the machine on which the BEA Tuxedo system is being installed during the installation process. To do so, enter the password of your choice after the appropriate prompt. The password must be a string of alphanumeric characters in clear-text format. It may contain no more than 80 characters.
A common password is required for two machines in a BEA Tuxedo system domain to communicate successfully. For this reason, you must use the same password whenever you install the BEA Tuxedo system on multiple machines for a single domain. As described previously, you are prompted to provide the password during the BEA Tuxedo installation process. If, however, you use a different password for one machine, you must add that password to the tlisten.pw file on each machine with which you want that machine to communicate.
For these reasons, you may have more than one administrative password in your tlisten.pw file. A single password file may contain no more than 20 passwords, with one password per line.
The administrative password that you enter during installation is collected by the installation script and stored in:
Make sure the permissions on your tlisten.pw file are set such that only the BEA Tuxedo system administrator can read the file.
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