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Changing a System Administrator or Tape Librarian User ID

If you want to change your system administrator or tape librarian user ID, you need to update the user ID definition for the new administrator ID in the CP Directory as follows:

1. Add a LINK to the VMANAGER 1FF minidisk at virtual address 1FF.
2. Add a LINK to the VMANAGER 195 minidisk at virtual address 1FE.
3. Copy the PROFRUN EXEC, from the A-DISK of the existing system administrator, to the A-DISK of the new administrator ID.
4. Add an EXEC PROFRUN command as the last statement in the PROFILE EXEC of the new administration ID.
5. Give the new system administrator (or tape librarian) permission to LINK to the system administration minidisks. These are defined as the value of the ADMINLINK tag for the entry in the VMSERVER NAMES file. This tag value consists of a set of three tokens for each administration disk. They are the owning user ID, the owner virtual address, and the read password. As an alternative to putting the read passwords in the NAMES file, you may establish External Security Manager permissions for the minidisk access, and use an asterisk as a placeholder token instead of a password.
6. Update the SYSADMIN and ALOCAL tags in the NAMES file entry to specify the new administrator user ID and A-DISK definition.

   For example, to make NEWSYSAD the system administrator for CA VM:Secure, replace VMXSYSAD as the system administrator user ID using the VMSERVER command to bring up a NAMES file panel. Change the entry:

   Tag: sysadmin    Value: VMXSYSAD
   Tag: alocal      Value: VMXSYSAD 191
   

   Replace the values with:

   Tag: sysadmin    Value: NEWSYSAD
   Tag: alocal      Value: NEWSYSAD 191
   

7. Change the authorization records in the product configuration file to authorize the new system administrator or tape librarian user ID.