Password Editor Command

Used to change the Oracle FS Provider for VMware VASA password.

SYNOPSIS

OFSVASAPasswordEditorTool ‑help

OFSVASAPasswordEditorTool [‑changePassword] [‑passwordExpirationQuery]

DESCRIPTION

You must change the password every 120 days. If the password expires, the Oracle FS Provider for VMware VASA stops working.

The password creation rules are defined in the following list:

The password expires every 120 days. Oracle recommends that you change this password at the same time you change the Monitor password on the Oracle FS System.
Minimum password length is eight characters.
Must contain at least one uppercase letter, one lowercase letter, and one numeric character.
Cannot be any of the last 50 passwords.
Note: The system retains recent passwords for one year.

SUBCOMMANDS

‑help: Displays the help documentation.
‑changePassword: Changes the password for Oracle FS Provider for VMware VASA. The user is prompted to enter the password on the command line (STDIN). The command is blocked until the password is typed into the command line, and you press the Enter key.
‑passwordExpirationQuery: Displays the lifetime remaining for the password for Oracle FS Provider for VMware VASA.

Note:

You can use a shortened form of the command. For example, use the ‑e option instead of the ‑passwordExpirationQuery option.

EXAMPLE

To display when a password is set to expire, run the Password Editor Tool command with ‑passwordExpirationQuery.

For Linux or Solaris, use the following command:

$ sh OFSVASAProviderPasswordEditorTool.sh ‑passwordExpirationQuery

For Windows, use the following command:

$ OFSVASAProviderPasswordEditorTool.bat ‑passwordExpirationQuery

Results:

[root@oracle tools]# sh OFSVASAProviderPasswordEditorTool.sh ‑passwordExpirationQuery
Password expiration: Wen Apr 01 14:04:30 MST 2015
Succeeded.
[root@oracle tools]#