There was just a lot of pain helping out here. I got the hostname of the server from the tester. But I could not seem to resolve that hostname. I connected to another server, and it somehow could translate that hostname to an IP address. I logged into the server and found the directory where the job was running from.
I knew what the username of the database account was. So I searched all the files and found one property file that had the username and password. Then I took a while to track down somebody who knew the new password. The weird thing is that we store some sort of encrypted version of the password. How am I supposed to generate that?
Turns out there is a Java program on the server that will encrypt your password. I don't know what algorithm or parameters are used for the encryption. But I don't need to know if I have this program. The password had some weird symbol in it that initially prohibited me from providing the password to the encryption program.
I thought I was home free. Tried to update the property file with the new encrypted password. Nope. The property file was read only for everyone except the owner. And I don't have the password for the owner account. Man. Makes you want to just give up. I told the tester to go get us some help from some system administrators that would have access.
