topic Re: how to decrypt and encrypt passwords in linux environment in Administration and Deployment

how to decrypt and encrypt passwords in linux environment

Chery — Mon, 19 Sep 2022 17:24:40 GMT

Hi,

HQ-server.conf, located under SAS Environment Manager, contains an encrypted password.It was necessary to decrypt the password.

Can anyone give me advice on encrypting and decrypting a password in Linux.

Appreciate your help!

Best Regards,

Cherry.

Re: how to decrypt and encrypt passwords in linux environment

SASKiwi — Mon, 19 Sep 2022 23:31:53 GMT

If your encryption key starts off like this:{sas002} that means it was encoded with the SAS procedure PWENCODE. Try running this as a test:

proc pwencode in = "MySecretPassword";
run;

And you will see how a password is encrypted in your SAS log. You can't decrypt it so you need to keep your original password to know what it was to start with. Keeping your passwords in a password safe is good practice.

Re: how to decrypt and encrypt passwords in linux environment

gwootton — Tue, 20 Sep 2022 12:16:28 GMT

The passwords stored in hq-server.conf are encrypted during deployment and are not meant to be decrypted and read by users.

Re: how to decrypt and encrypt passwords in linux environment

Chery — Tue, 20 Sep 2022 15:55:47 GMT

Thanks for your response.

My goal is to update the SSL cert for SAS Environment Manager, and as the last step, I need to change server.keystore.password to "hyperic". I'm not sure how to verify it since it was encoded.

Please advise.

Thanks,

Cherry.

Re: how to decrypt and encrypt passwords in linux environment

Chery — Tue, 20 Sep 2022 15:56:41 GMT

The password started with "ENC....."

Re: how to decrypt and encrypt passwords in linux environment

gwootton — Tue, 20 Sep 2022 16:22:02 GMT

You do not need to change this in hq-server.conf (it's already hyperic). This is the password you would use when creating the keystore.

Generate the SAS Environment Manager Keystore with a Site-Signed Certificate
https://go.documentation.sas.com/doc/en/bicdc/9.4/bimtag/p1fpnnm9hxkhlzn1x5tkqs1caeg5.htm#p10kf0lwczskrcn1asp3cl03krc7