Oracle Hyperion Financial Data Quality Management, Enterprise Edition
provides a Win/UNIX script to encrypt a password and store in a file. Script encryptpassword.bat/sh is located in
EPM ORACLE INSTANCE/FinancialDataQuality
directory.
To encrypt a password:
Navigate to the directory that has the batch files.
Typically, the batch file directory is
EPM ORACLE INSTANCE/FinancialDataQuality
directory
From the
EPM ORACLE INSTANCE/FinancialDataQuality
directory, at a command prompt, run the script
encryptpassword.bat <passwordfile>.
When prompted, enter the password, and then click
Enter.
Note the following:
The password is masked when you type it.
When running the batch script, you can provide the password by file name as a parameter in the following format:
–f:passwordfile. The file name used as a parameter is placed in the location defined in “Encrypted Password Folder” option of System Settings.
Do not include a disk or directory specification as part of the file name, just enter a file name with or without an extension.
Replace the [file] with the actual file name, and do not include the brackets.
The script encrypts the password and writes it to the file provided as a parameter.