To secure the passwords used to access the connector database and source and target systems, you can choose to store them in an obfuscated format.
This feature is available since CCF 1.4.2.
Passwords are stored in the
.properties files located in the
config directories for your connector scenario. When you choose to obfuscate passwords, you'll see them prefixed with "OBF:" in the
.properties files.
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In Eclipse, select .
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Select whether you always want passwords stored in plain text, or always obfuscated, or stored in whatever the current format is -- obfuscated or in plain text.
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Click OK.
Note: Passwords are not automatically obfuscated (or de-obfuscated) in the .properties files as soon as you set your preference here. Passwords are written only when you save changes to your connector landscape.
Tip: Besides the Eclipse user interface, CCF also provides a command line tool for obfuscating passwords. It is located in the
<CCF_HOME>/lib folder and called obfuscate.bat in Windows and obfuscate.sh in Linux. It accepts a single parameter, the password in clear text, and generates the obfuscated version which you can use in the appropriate .properties file.