Creating encrypted user password files in Security Center - Security Center 5.11

Security Center Administrator Guide 5.11

Product
Security Center
Content type
Guides > Administrator guides
Version
5.11
Language
English
Last updated
2024-07-05

If you are logging on to Security Center using command-line arguments, but you do not want to show the user's password in the command line, you can create an encrypted password file for the user and reference that file in the command line instead.

Before you begin

  • Make sure you are on the workstation that the user will be using to log on.
  • You must be logged on as the user for whom you are creating the encrypted password file.
  • The user must have the Modify user properties privilege to create the password file. If not, as an administrator, you can temporarily grant the user this privilege before starting this procedure, and remove this privilege after the password file is created.

What you should know

The encrypted password file is used to authenticate the user instead of the password.
IMPORTANT: The encrypted password file is unique to the workstation it is created on, and to the user who created the file. The password file must be created by the same user who will be logged on through the command line, and on the same workstation that the user will be logged on to. If later somone changes the password, the password file must also be recreated.

Procedure

  1. Open Config Tool and log on to Security Center with the user for which you want to create the encrypted password file.
  2. Open the User management task.
  3. Select the user to configure, and click the Properties tab.
  4. Click the Save encrypted password to disk button.
  5. Choose where to save the file, and then click Save.