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To revert to plain text Windchill RV&S Agent-side passwords
1. Stop the Windchill RV&S Agent.
2. In the agent.properties file, delete the property for global.encrypt=true, or modify it as follows:
global.encrypt=false
3. For each affected password, delete the encrypted text, and enter your chosen password in plain text, for example, in the encrypted format of:
mksagent.privatekey.password=encrypted.t6jUV133ZOk\=
mksagent.privatekey.password=password
where password is a plain text entry for your chosen password.
4. Delete the keystore and the keystore password file.
5. To retain the changes, save each affected property file.
6. To run with plain text Windchill RV&S Agent passwords, restart the Windchill RV&S Agent.