ASA Database Administration Guide
  Database Administration Utilities
    The File Hiding utility

Hiding the contents of files using the dbfhide command-line utility

Syntax 

dbfhide original-configuration-file encrypted-configuration-file

Description 

Configuration files (also called command files) are used by some utilities to contain command-line options. These options may contain a password. You can use the File Hiding utility to add simple encryption to configuration files, and thereby obfuscate the contents of the file. The original file will not be modified.

The utilities that use configuration files include:

• dbsrv9

• dbmlsrv9

• dbmlsync

• dbltm

• dbremote

• ssremote

• ssqueue

This utility accepts @filename parameters. For more information, see @filename server option.

Example 

Create a configuration file that starts the personal database server and the sample database. It should set a cache of 10 Mb, and name this instance of the personal server Elora. The configuration file would be written as follows:

# Configuration file for server Elora
-n Elora
-c 10M
path\asademo.db

(Note that lines beginning with # are treated as comments.)

Name the file sample.txt. If you wanted to start the database using this configuration file, your command line would be:

dbeng9 @sample.txt

Now, add simple encryption to the configuration.

dbfhide sample.txt encrypted_sample.txt

Use the encrypted_sample.txt file to start a database.

dbsrv9 @encrypted_sample.txt

For more information about Encryption, see Keeping Your Data Secure. For more information about using configuration files, see Using configuration files.