Portal, Express Beta Version 6.1 Operating systems: i5/OS, Linux,Windows

Encrypting sensitive data

When you create a new content source using the Manage Search portlet, some content sources require that you enter sensitive data, such as the user ID and password of the crawler user. For example, this applies to secured portal sites or HTTP sites that require a user ID and password. This sensitive data is stored on the hard drive. In order to ensure that such sensitive data is encrypted on disk, perform the following procedure after portal installation:

1. This file is located in the following directory:

   • For Linux: portal_server_root/bin
   • For i5/OS: portal_server_root/bin
   • For Windows: portal_server_root\bin
2. Open the file with an editor
3. Replace the string CHANGE TO YOUR SECRET KEY  with a random string.
4. Run the updated file searchsecret.xml by using the XML configuration interface

   1. Specify the file name using the -in option.
   2. Specify a result file using the -out option.
   3. Check the result file to make sure that the XML request was executed successfully.
   For more details about how to use the XML configuration interface, refer to Working with the XML configuration interface.
5. Delete the file searchsecret.xml.