How could we use CA PUPM Password Extractor tool?
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How could we use CA PUPM Password Extractor tool?

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Products

CA Virtual Privilege Manager CA Privileged Identity Management Endpoint (PIM)

Issue/Introduction

Is there a way to extract privileged user passwords from the PIM database?

Environment

Privileged Identity Manager 12.8, 12.9, or 14.0

Resolution

Yes, there is a tool called pwextractor located on the Enterprise Management server which can be used to extract PUPM/SAM users and passwords from the backend database.

The tool is located in the following directory by default.
C:\Program Files\CA\AccessControlServer\IAM Suite\Access Control\tools\pwextractor

 

In order to use the tool, the following information is required.
- Database server hostname
- Database username
- Database password
- Database name/schema
- Database type (mssql/oracle)
- Location of FIPSkey.dat

The tool will connect directly to the database and perform a query to retrieve all privileged user accounts. The tool will then write the output to a specified filename. The tool can output the passwords to the text file as either encrypted or decrypted passwords.

Here is an example from a test system:
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>pwextractor -backup -account_pwd -cleartext -h localhost -r 1433 -d entm -l ac -p memco123 -t mssql -f C:\backup3.txt -k jboss
CA PUPM Password extractor.
Successfully parsed the following options:
Hostname :       localhost
DB/Schema :       entm
DB Type :       mssql
Login name      : ac

Password :       memco123
Output file     : C:\backup3.txt
FIPS key file   : C:\jboss-4.2.3.GA\server\default\deploy\IdentityMinder.ear\config\com\netegrity\config\keys\FIPS
key.dat
Successfully connected to database

Starting passwords extraction for ACCOUNT_PASSWORD......

Completed exporting current user passwords to file: C:\backup3.txt
Starting passwords extraction of ACCOUNT_PASSWORD_HISTORY......
Successfully completed password extraction to file is: C:\backup3.txt
Signed file successfully to C:\backup3.txt.sig
Press any key to continue . . .
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The content in C:\backup3.txt looks like the following:

3@!~1@!~4@!~eTDYNAccountName=root,eTDYNAccountContainerName=SSH Accounts,eTDYNDirectoryName=example.com,eTNamespaceName=SSH Device,dc=xx,dc=xxxxx@!~memco123@!~CN=Administrator,CN=Users,DC=xxxxxxx,DC=local@!~26/09/2013 07:02:40

For the above account, the password is "memco123".  Each field is preceeded by: @!~

Additional Information

For more information, please refer to the documentation link below.

https://techdocs.broadcom.com/us/en/symantec-security-software/identity-security/privileged-identity-manager/12-9-02/reference/utilities/pwextractor-utility-extract-privileged-account-passwords.html