69.4 Setting Up the Remote Management Agent Password

The user at the managed workstation must set a password for the Remote Management Agent and communicate the password to the remote operator.

  1. Right-click the Remote Management Agent icon.

  2. Click Security, then click Set Password

    Use a password of ten or fewer ASCII characters. The password is case-sensitive and cannot be blank.

WARNING:The password is stored in a derivative form in the Password value under HKLM\Software\Novell\ZENworks\Remote Management\RMAgent registry key. The derivative is a machine independent hash. This means you can use NAL to distribute a common password.

However, there is a known security vulnerability in using Password-Based authentication. We recommend you to use the Directory-Based authentication. For more information on the vulnerability in using Password-Based authentication, see TID 7006557 in the Novell Support Knowledgebase