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

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

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.

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.

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

I found a method to get the password decoded.

Thanks for all the answers.

@wittyme

Interesting and eager to know how you decoded the passwprd?

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.