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Logon Password Prompts

All CA VM:Director commands, except for the following, prompt for a logon password before you can use them:

• DISPLINK
• EXTRACT
• PAINT
• QLOCK
• QPCB
• QSTART
• QUERY

This is a security feature to protect unauthorized use of powerful commands through your user ID. However, if your terminal is secure and there is no reason to restrict your user ID’s activity, you can give yourself NOPASS authorization in the AUTHORIZ CONFIG file to all the other commands. You can give authorization to bypass this password requirement when appropriate—for example, when users need to run EXECs that include these commands.