Appendix F

Password Encryption #

The database connection password may be encrypted.

In the SICS installation folder, there is a file named encrypt.bat. This bat file takes a plain-text string (the password) as input, calls a SICS utility program and outputs an encrypted version of the string. This encrypted value will always be prefixed with % so as to later recognize it as an encrypted value.

The encrypted password can be provided in the command line password field and/or the ini file settings password field, see above. If it provided in the command line password field in a .bat/.cmd file, it will usually be necessary to double the % sign.