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ARIS Technical Help

Password encryption

There are many places where you might want to use and store a password. The y-password.bat can be used to encrypt these passwords. Enter the tool name followed by /? or -? to see the usage instructions, for example y-password.bat -?.

Procedure. Procedure

    Open a command prompt on the above folder (Start > Run > cmd).

    1. Enter y-password.bat <option> <password>

    2. Mark and copy the encrypted password and paste it to your configuration file or use it directly from command line.

    The following is output:

    [CLI] Setting verbosity level... [VALUE: 0=OFF]

    [CLI] Plain: <password>

    [CLI] Encrypted: f4a28327ad2f0c87336dd74fe0a70c39

    General usage

    Options

    Description

    -?, -h, --help

    Show help

    Default: false

    Commands

    Description

    encrypt

    encrypts the password

    Example 15.

    Input

    y-password.bat encrypt aris

    Output

    [CLI] Setting verbosity level... [VALUE: 0=OFF]

    [CLI] Plain: aris

    [CLI] Encrypted: f4a28327ad2f0c87336dd74fe0a70c39

    Usage of an encrypted password from command line

    This example shows how to use the encrypted password while executing the LDAP synchronization from the command line.

    Input

    y-ldapsync.bat syncUser -au <user_name> -u system -p {crypted}f4a28327ad2f0c87336dd74fe0a70c39

    Output

    LDAP synchronization with password encryption