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Assign a Password

If creating new accounts on the destination system, you must use your network's password policy. Otherwise, CA DMM cannot create the accounts. For example, if all new accounts have a policy to create users with passwords over eight characters, then you should set the password options.

To assign a password on the User Destinations page click Passwords. The Password Options for New Accounts dialog appears. Choose from the following:

• Click the Use No Passwords option button if you do not want users to have passwords. (This is selected by default.)
• Click the Use a Common Password option button if you want to assign a common password for all users on the destination system, and then click Specify to enter and confirm the password.
• Click the Use Randomly Generated Passwords option button if you want DMM to randomly assign a password for the destination users, and then click Specify to choose the options that will generate the passwords.

  Note: If you select randomly generated passwords you must also enter the location to save the password log. The password log defaults to the currently logged on user's My Documents folder. However, you should change the location to a secure location.

• Click OK on the Password Options for New Accounts dialog.

Note: If you redirect users to Active Directory, you might receive a warning message, although the user is created in the Active Domain. Active Domain has an option to automatically add new users to the domain users group. This option can be turned off in Active Directory. CA DMM always tries to add the user to the domain users group, which could result in a warning message if the ‘automatically add new users to the domain group’ option in Active Directory is turned on.