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Status Is a defect
Workspace DataStage
Created by Guest
Created on Aug 12, 2020

Hide password arguments which is invoked in instance of dsidocsvr

We need to fix the issue: Passwords are visible on operation system level when the process is running ( command uses the password as parameter ). Thanks

For example:

dsad1er  2359796        1   0   May 03      - 38:49 dsidocsvr UVHOME=/opt/IBM/InformationServer115/Server/DSEngine ENABLESNCGUI=FALSE USEDEFAULTILOADDIR=TRUE DSPASSWORD=:!-:(hQlJ,0cb`o1E6H45?)6XWFTT RFCSERVERCOUNT=1 SAPROUTERSTRING= ACKNOWLEDGEIDOCRECEIPT=TRUE DEFAULTLANGUAGE=EN DATAFILESPATH= SNCLIBGUI= SNCQOPRUNTIME= SNCMYNAMERUNTIME= SNCX509RUNTIME=FALSE PASSWORDFILE= SAPSYSNUM=00 SNCMYNAMEGUI= DEFAULTUSERNAME=ZURDF_CPIC DESCRIPTION=IP0I100BRS SNCXCERTRUNTIME= SAPGROUP= IDOCLOGBUFFERSIZE=0 SNCQOPGUI= SNCUSERUNTIMEPARAMETERS=FALSE DSUSERNAME=AVHGDJ744@nomail.relay.ibm.com METADATAFILE= SAPMESSERVER= AUTOCLEARIDOCLOG=FALSE SNCPARTNERNAMERUNTIME= ILOADPARTNERNUMBER=KRDXACTA02 IDOCPORTVERSION=3 DEFAULTCLIENT=100 SNCPARTNERNAMEGUI= READMETADATAFROMFILE=FALSE ALLOWSAPTORUNJOBS=TRUE SAPAPPSERVER=ip0db.pok.ibm.com ENABLESNCRUNTIME=FALSE LISTENFORIDOCS=TRUE NAME=IP0I100BRS SNCXCERTGUI= ISDOMAINNAME=ibmkp1er.portsmouth.uk.ibm.com:82 SNCX509GUI=FALSE DEFAULTILOADDIR= MSGSVRROUTERSTRING= SAPSYSID= REFSERVERPROGID=actarw SNCLIBRUNTIME= ILOADDESTPARTNERNUMBER=IP0I100BRS DSSERVERNAME=IBMKP1ER USELOADBALANCING=FALSE DEFAULTPASSWORD=:!-;$TsqFB`|@@m|TP7v5?)6XWFTT

As you can see the password is opentext in the process ,Encrypted password can be cracked as well, it is not compliant with IBM password policy.

Needed by Date Aug 31, 2020