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Roman_80473
Jan 13, 2011Nimbostratus
How to encrypt/encode LTM credentials via iControl
Hi folks,
I'm new to iControl, and I need to encrypt/encode credentials before connecting to ltm machine via iControl. Right now, I pass username and password in clear text to Interfaces.initiali...
hoolio
Jan 13, 2011Cirrostratus
That does make sense. It would be specific to your clientside platform. iControl just accepts cleartext credentials.
You'd want to use some function in Java to encrypt and then encode the credentials, save that string and then have your program decrypt and decode to initiate the iControl call. If you're not sure how to do this in Java, you could search online for sample code or tutorials.
Aaron
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