Environment Variable

wittyme · Post by **wittyme** » Thu Feb 27, 2014 3:16 pm

Is there a way to decrypt environment variables that are encrypted?

IBM Analytics Champion 2009 - 2020 · Post by **asorrell** » Thu Feb 27, 2014 3:23 pm

Like most technical forums, we don't promote or provide answers that can enable hacking into systems.

wittyme · Post by **wittyme** » Thu Feb 27, 2014 3:28 pm

I do not need to hack, just a direction is enough. I have some old environment variables that are encrypted and instead of resetting all the passwords I thought is there any way I can find a file in root directory or through some datastage job.

I understand if you are not okay to tell the process.

PaulVL · Post by **PaulVL** » Thu Feb 27, 2014 6:49 pm

If you are the admin of your environment you could open a PMR with IBM and they can guide you on how to obtain such information.

But ya.. posting how to decrypt passwords on an open forum... bad mojo will follow.

ray.wurlod · Post by **ray.wurlod** » Thu Feb 27, 2014 8:05 pm

In any case, it would depend on how and where the environment variables were encrypted, and with what utility.

wittyme · Post by **wittyme** » Thu Jun 12, 2014 4:19 pm

I found a method to get the password decoded.

Thanks for all the answers.

vamsi.4a6 · Post by **vamsi.4a6** » Thu Jun 12, 2014 8:08 pm

@wittyme

Interesting and eager to know how you decoded the passwprd?

qt_ky · Post by **qt_ky** » Thu Jun 12, 2014 8:18 pm

There is a topic on this very site about decoding the default env var "encryption." Encryption is a stretch really... It's more of a simple encoding.