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| ApplicationPassword in WBIA Adapter |
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| Qadeer_824 |
 Posted: Thu Oct 18, 2007 9:25 am Post subject: ApplicationPassword in WBIA Adapter |
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Acolyte
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Hi,
I need urgent help. The WBIA JDBC Connector has a config file and using connector configuration i clicked on encrypt, but forgot the password which was actually present. Does anyone know what is the encryption technique used so that i can find the decryption technique online and know the original password?
Or is there any tool which can help me know the real password?
Please help ASAP.
Regards,
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| jefflowrey |
| Posted: Thu Oct 18, 2007 11:04 am Post subject: |
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You can't, in general, decrypt a password. You can only re-encrypt a string with the same method, and compare the results to the encrypted string.
Get the DBA to change the password on the DB. Update the Adapter config file.
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| Qadeer_824 |
| Posted: Fri Oct 19, 2007 3:28 am Post subject: |
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Acolyte
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i would very well do that and infact i have been using that method to make it run. But, i'm afraid about the dependencies of the userid. i am not sure what other users are using the same id to connect and if they connect with the old password (which i dont know) then their connection would fail.
Would there be any method of resetting the password on a unix box to an old value even though i dont know what it was..? i guess it cant be done! huh.. |
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| Vitor |
| Posted: Fri Oct 19, 2007 3:38 am Post subject: |
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| Qadeer_824 wrote: |
| Would there be any method of resetting the password on a unix box to an old value even though i dont know what it was..? i guess it cant be done! huh.. |
You want to set a password to a value you don't know? Now that's what I call random access!! 
If what you're alluding to is a "go-back" facility where the password can be reverted to the previous nth one, I'm not aware of that facility being provided on any platform.
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| jefflowrey |
| Posted: Fri Oct 19, 2007 3:42 am Post subject: |
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Depending on the unix system, and what Unix registry it's using, if you have a properly encrypted password, even if you don't know the decrypted version, then you can update for example the shadow file with the encrypted text.
But in general, a bad idea. You have, right now, an opportunity to reexamine (and document!) the people who are using this userid.
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