Operating Systems: i5/OS
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Use the non-default OS/400 password encoding algorithm
Use these steps to change your encoding algorithm from OS400 to
XOR.
WebSphere Application Server supports both the OS400 and the XOR encoding
algorithms. The default encoding algorithm is XOR. For more conceptual information
on these algorithms, see Password encoding and encryption.
Overview
There might be instances where you need to use the OS400 encoding
algorithm. See Enabling the non-default OS/400 password encoding algorithm.
If you use the OS400 encoding algorithm, but change
the os400.security.password.encoding.algorithm property value to XOR as
described in the first step, then all of the passwords remain encoded with
the OS400 algorithm. However, after you restart the server, when you make
changes to the passwords through the administrative console, the passwords
are encoded using the XOR algorithm.
The following steps describe how
to change your encoding algorithm from OS400 to XOR:
Procedure
- Set the os400.security.password.encoding.algorithm property to XOR for
each WebSphere Application Server profile that uses the Validation list object.
- Stop all of the servers.
- Edit the configuration files and change all of the encoded passwords
to their unencoded values.
- Edit the properties files and change all of the encoded passwords
to their clear text values.
Results
You have changed your encoding algorithm from OS400 to XOR.
What to do next
After you completing these steps, you can encode the passwords in
the properties files. See Manually encoding passwords in properties files for more information.
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Password encoding and encryption
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Manually encoding passwords in properties files
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