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rmidarchivepwdhis

The rmidarchivepwdhis program is used to trim an account’s archived password history to the most recent <N> passwords, where N is set by the RESOURCE PASSWORD HISTORY NUMBER managed system policy option. By default, all passwords are archived. You can also run this program to remove only failed passwords of an account. You must run rmidarchivepwdhis manually or as a scheduled task to modify the number of archived passwords. The operation does not have a permanent effect.

Usage
rmidarchivepwdhis [-wstnid <workstation id>] [-account <account id>]

Argument

Description

-wstnid <resource ID>

Specifies the resource where the account(s) reside.

-account <account ID>

Specifies the account that will have its password history modified.

Examples
  1. To check all accounts on all resources and modify their password histories as required, type:

    rmidarchivepwdhis
  2. To check the account abbeybr on all resources and modify their password histories as required, type:

    rmidarchivepwdhis -account abbeybr
  3. To check the account abbeybr on resource calgary1 and modify its password history as required, type:

    rmidarchivepwdhis -wstnid calgary1 -account abbeybr