Password in etautil command.

Products

• CA Identity Suite
• CA Identity Manager

Issue/Introduction

Is there any way we could use the command etautil without passing the password of the provisioning admin user as parameter?

 

Environment

All Identity Manager

Resolution

Password is required for security reasons.  The password will be passed in plain text (there is no way to encrypt the password), so caution should be used when promoting the use of the etautil command.

You could also use the -y parameter with a text file name where the text file contains the clear-text password instead of using the -p parameter.

etautil -u USER -y password_file

Or you can use the -p parameter 

etautil -u USER -p PWD 

Additional Information

https://ftpdocs.broadcom.com/cadocs/0/CA%20Identity%20Manager%20r12%205%20SP4-ENU/Bookshelf_Files/HTML/237009.html