dm_check_password is returning "dm_check_password: Result = (245) = (DM_CHKPASS_BAD_LOGIN)"

If dm_check_password is returning "dm_check_password: Result = (245) = (DM_CHKPASS_BAD_LOGIN)" and it's permissions are ok, check the following: 

1) Check to check the permissions. They should be the following:
-rwsr-s--- 1 root dmadmins 11076 May 1 09:01 dm_check_password
2) If the permission is correct, check if the file system, which contains the Documentum software, is mounted with the nosuid option set.
You can check this for example in Solaris with the command 'mount'.
3) The correct output for the command mount should look like below.
/export/starfish6 on /dev/dsk/c0t3d0s6 read/write/setuid/largefiles on Thu Oct 10 07:09:08 2002 

If you see nosuid in the output it will ignore the sticky bit (rws) on that particular file system and the dm_check_password will not work. 

Please ask you UNIX administrator for further assistance if you need help to remount the file system using the setuid flag.