Global properties

Global Enterprise Security properties are configured with the security.properties file. Most properties in the file have a default value, and any property value that you set in security.properties is maintained whenever you perform an upgrade of the Enterprise Security software.

Since all global security configuration properties are contained in this file, Sybase recommends that you make a backup copy of this file and store the backup in a safe location before you make any changes to it, then again after you have configured your security subsystem.

Additionally, you should protect the configuration information in security.properties so that users cannot disable any configured features. Enterprise Security provides a securetool command to encrypt and decrypt this file as necessary. See “Encrypting and decrypting the security.properties file”.

The location of security.properties depends on your application server.