September 2013
Intermediate to advanced
362 pages
7h 56m
English
GoldenGate requires an Oracle user password to connect to the source and target databases. In this recipe you will learn how to encrypt the database passwords using the ENCRYPT utility.
You need to generate the encryption keys and store them in the ENCKEYS file before generating encrypted passwords. Follow the steps in the Generating encryption keys recipe to generate and store a 256-bit key called dbkey1 in the ENCKEYS file.
Although you can generate encrypted passwords using the DEFAULT encryption keys, Oracle recommends using custom encryption keys for all production systems.
Encrypting the database user password involves the following steps:
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