Generating an encrypted password for the Rational ClearQuest admin account

You must encrypt the Rational ClearQuest administrator account password because credentials from ClearQuest user accounts are passed to the Report Server for ClearQuest. Blank passwords are not supported.

Procedure

  1. Navigate to the /RCQR/server/WebSphere/classes directory.
  2. Start the Java runtime to load the com.ibm.rational.security.PasswordCrypt class and encrypt the password.
    The syntax for the command is:
    Usage: java -classpath cqregistry.jar com.ibm.rational.security.PasswordCrypt -encrypt admin-account-password

    Your command line should look similar to this, where password is the password to encrypt:

    On Windows:
    %RATIONAL_COMMON%\JAVA5.0\jre\bin\java -classpath cqregistry.jar com.ibm.rational.security.PasswordCrypt -encrypt paSSwOrD
    On the UNIX system and Linux:
    $RATIONAL_COMMON/java/jre/bin/java -classpath cqregistry.jar com.ibm.rational.security.PasswordCrypt -encrypt paSSwOrD
    The encrypted password is displayed on the console. For example:
    'paSSwOrD' is encrypted to 'dfce3c5374d10c3506d158b5ce7c7039'
  3. Record the encrypted password, which you will use in a later step to modify the reportserver.properties file.

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