Encrypting or decrypting a password manually

If you set a password using a configuration file, you must encrypt or decrypt the password manually. By default the ncp_crypt command encrypts the password provided. However, if you specify the decrypt option, then the password is decrypted.

Complete these steps to encrypt or decrypt a password from the configuration file.

Note: All password encryption in Network Manager is performed using FIPS 140–2 compliant algorithms.

Stop Network Manager.
Encrypt or decrypt the required password from the command line using the ncp_crypt utility in the ITNMHOME/bin directory.
```
ncp_crypt -password password [ -decrypt ] [ -help ] [ -version ]
```
Configure an insert in the relevant configuration file.
1. Use the output from the ncp_crypt encryption utility.
2. Set the value of the m_EncryptedPwd field to 1.
Restart Network Manager.

To encrypt the password, type the following command.

ncp_crypt -password mypassword

To decrypt a password you use the same utility that is used to encrypt the password, but with an additional command line argument.

ncp_crypt -decrypt -password @44:xXd7WUIC8teZDhLs8RQ1VjArw8HmUtNCwWs/VrVIxqI=@