We’ve created a custom application for storing some of our server passwords. We’ve made use of an ecryption key and encrypted the password fields with this key.
Works great for that purpose. Problem is that there is now a request for them to be able to take those passwords and dump them into a file so they can script mass changes.
If we can’t display the encrypted fields in a view, is there any other way to pull the data? Are we just approaching this the wrong way? (There may be a more technical way to do it, exporting views is pretty simple…)
Subject: Ways to work with encrypted fields?
We’ve made use of an ecryption key and encrypted the password fields with this key.
OK, you use Secret Encryption.
As you already found out: There is no possibility to display encrypted fields in a view.
What do you want to do?
there is now a request for them to be able to take those passwords and dump them into a file
This is not clearly enough for me: How do you want to realize this?
As far as I know: If you run an agent (with the user-rights who does have access to the encryption docs) you could process all the docs and write the encrypted data into a text file.
Have you tried this already?
Matthias
Subject: RE: Ways to work with encrypted fields?
If the agent could write an encrypted field out to a file then I could handle that. I’m primarily an administrator so I like to confirm these things if possible before I ask for help with this kind of thing.
To clear up what I’m really after, I just want a way for my user to easily take and write a few of the field values from a document (including a couple that are encrypted) into a simple text document. They were used to exporting data from a view - display what you want and dump it - but the encryption was causing problems!
Thanks for the feedback.