When you enable password encryption for a Replication Server, passwords are stored and transmitted in encrypted format. The passwords specified with create user or alter user are encrypted in the rs_users and rs_maintusers system tables in the RSSD.
When you use rs_init to administer passwords in your replication system, you can:
Specify during installation that a Replication Server should use encryption.
Enable encryption for a Replication Server. See “Enabling password encryption for a Replication Server” for instructions.
Change an encrypted password in a Replication Server configuration file. See “Altering an encrypted password for a Replication Server” for instructions.
Once you have encrypted passwords using rs_init,
they cannot be decrypted.
