For the highest level of security, you can apply additional encryption to passwords using the existing SHA256 password encoding.
About this task
This additional encryption process applies a random set of bytes to each password (salt) for each SHA256 hash encryption. Salted SHA256 encryption is applied to all newly created passwords.
Steps
- Open the users.properties file, located at:
- (Windows) – C:\Program Files\NetApp\SANtricity Web Services Proxy\data\config
- (Linux) – /opt/netapp/santricity_web_services_proxy/data/config
- Re-enter the encrypted password as plain text.
- Run the securepasswds command line utility to re-encrypt the password or simply restart the Web Services Proxy. This utility is installed in the root install directory for the Web Services Proxy.
Note: Alternatively, you can salt and hash local user passwords whenever password edits are performed through the Unified Manager.