Password Encryption

You can enter the initial sign-in password for each user in these ways:

• Type it manually.

• Use a default password established through the sign-in security processing options.

• Have EnterpriseOne enter it automatically because the user has an existing security record.

When typing a password manually or when using the processing option default password, you cannot see the password for a new user as you are typing it. When you revise this record, however, the system encrypts the password so that all you see are asterisks. The number of asterisks does not represent the number of characters in the password. The user security application does not know what the password is. The application is given a flag that indicates that a password was entered. The system stores the actual password on the security server within a binary object in the F980WSEC table. The system accesses the binary object when the user security application requests a change or inquiry.