Encode passwords in properties files

Use the PropFilePasswordEncoder script to encode passwords in properties files.

Authority

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

Syntax

PropFilePasswordEncoder fileName { passwordPropertiesList
  | -SAS } [ -instance instance ] [ -help | -? ]

Note: You must specify either the passwordPropertiesList parameter or the -SAS parameter.

Parameters

• fileName
  This required parameter specifies the name of file in which passwords are encoded.

• passwordPropertiesList
  This parameter is required if you are encoding passwords in the soap.client.props file. Specify a one or more password properties that you want to encode.

• -SAS
  This parameter is required if you are encoding passwords in the sas.client.props file.

• -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.

• -help or -?
  If you specify this parameter, the script ignores all other parameters and displays usage text.

Examples

This command encodes the passwords in the sas.client.props file for the default WebSphere Application Server - Express instance:

/QIBM/ProdData/WebASE51/ASE/bin/PropFilePasswordEncoder
  /QIBM/UserData/WebASE51/ASE/default/properties/sas.client.props -SAS

This command encodes passwords in the soap.client.props file for the default Websphere Application Server - Express instance:

/QIBM/ProdData/WebASE51/ASE/bin/PropFilePasswordEncoder
  /QIBM/UserData/WebASE51/ASE/default/properties/soap.client.props
  com.ibm.SOAP.loginPassword,com.ibm.ssl.keyStorePassword,com.ibm.ssl.trustStorePassword

Note: These commands are wrapped for display purposes. When you run the PropFilePasswordEncoder script, enter the command as a single line.