Encode password data

The EncAuthDataFile script encodes password data that is stored in a text file. The text file's name is defined by the system property WAS_AuthDataFile and has records in this format:

alias1,user1,pw1

For information about encoding algorithms, see Password encoding in the Security topic.

Authority

To run the EncAuthDataFile script, your user profile must have *ALLOBJ authority.

Syntax

The syntax of the EncAuthDataFile script is:

EncAuthDataFile input_file output_file [ -instance instance ]

Parameters

The parameters of the EncAuthDataFile script are:

• input_file
  This is a required parameter. The value input_file specifies the fully qualified name of the authentication data file that the script reads.

• output_file
  This is a required parameter. The value output_file specifies the fully qualified name of the authentication data file to which the script writes the encoded data.

• -instance
  This is an optional parameter. The value instance specifies an application server instance name. The script uses the password encoding algorithm that it retrieves from the specified instance. If -instance is not specified the default instance is used.