Encrypt passwords for basic authentication

In the Jobserver service configuration, you have to enter an encrypted password. To encrypt the password, use the reversehttp-gateway-standalone utility.

Prerequisites

• You have downloaded the reversehttp-gateway-standalone-<your_reverse_http_version>.jar file that corresponds to your CPSH version.
• You have the password of the CPSH user that you use to connect to your Collibra Platform Self-Hosted environment.

Steps

Note For security reasons, we have truncated the encrypted password in the example.

1. Open a terminal or command prompt session.
2. Go to the folder that contains the downloaded JAR file.
3. Execute the following command:

   java -jar reversehttp-gateway-standalone-<your_reverse_http_version>.jar encrypt

4. Enter the required information:

   Collibra Reverse HTTP Gateway
   Enter value to encrypt: <password_of_Collibra_user>
   Re-enter value to encrypt: <password_of_Collibra_user>
   Encrypted value: encrypted:k7ScuJ3...

   Note If the entered values in this command don't match, it will ask the values again.

What's next

If you use an encrypted password in a configuration, use the full string of the Encrypted value result. This includes the prefix encrypted:.