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5. The next four pages request the passwords for the sysadmin, root, and pe
users (Figure 2-9).
Figure 2-9 Setup of passwords
You should change them from the default password. The meaning of the
users are as follows:
sysadmin The sysadmin user ID is the Systems Director
administrator user ID (similar to the hscroot user on an
HMC).
root The root user ID is the service user ID for Systems
Director.
pe The pe user ID is the product engineer user ID for
Systems Director (analogous to hscpe user on HMC).
Use the following password rules:
– The password must contain at least seven characters, with a maximum of
eight.
– The characters should be standard 7-bit ASCII characters.
– These characters include the characters A-Z, a-z, 0-9, and many special
characters, such as tilde (~), exclamation mark (!), at sign (@), number
sign (#), dollar sign ($), percent sign (%), caret (^), ampersand (&),
asterisk (*), left and right parentheses ( ), underscore (_), plus sign (+),
hyphen (-), equals sign (=), left and right curly braces ({ }), left and right