Encrypting Passwords (encrypt) v6.2

The encrypt command encrypts the text supplied in an input file and writes the encrypted result to a specified output file. Use the encrypt command to generate an encrypted password that can be copied into a text file that will be referenced by an xDB Replication Server CLI command that requires a user name and the user’s password.

Synopsis

-encrypt –input infile –output pwdfile

The text in infile is processed using the MD5 encryption algorithm, and the encrypted text is written to file pwdfile. Make sure that infile contains only the text that you want to encrypt and that there are no extraneous characters or empty lines before the text or after the text that you want to encrypt.

Parameters

infile

The file containing the text to be encrypted.

pwdfile

The file containing the encrypted form of the text from infile.

Examples

The file infile contains the word password.

password

The encrypt command is then executed producing a file named pwdfile.

$ java -jar edb-repcli.jar -encrypt -input ~/infile -output ~/pwdfile

The content of file pwdfile contains the encrypted form of password.

ygJ9AxoJEX854elcVIJPTw==