password

Changes the DA agent login password.

password does not return a result set. If the current password is incorrect, or the new password is invalid, you see an error message.

Syntax

password current_password new_password

Parameters

current_password – the existing password for the administration user login name.
new_password – the new password for the administration user login name, which can be blank or 0 – 30 characters in length. Valid characters for input values are a-z, A-Z, 0-9, -, and _.

Examples

Example 1 – changes the da_admin password from “sybase” to “onesybase”:
```
password sybase onesybase 
go
```

Usage

When you change the password for a DA agent, you must also change the passwords of all the DA servers that connect to that DA agent. Failure to do so results in the DA server not being able to authenticate with the DA agent.