On 10/06/2013 19:38, Michael Monette wrote:
I am trying to create a user with a blank password. I have checked the box under my resource called
"GENERATE PASSWORD WHEN PASSWORD IS MISSING". I try to create a new user in Syncope without a
password and it fails because it requires "password" and "confirmPassword" to be filled
in.
We are going to be creating users in syncope, then using another tool (PWM Password
Manager) For users to activate, create secret questions & Answers, and create
their password. So we don't need to create passwords on account creation. Any idea
if this is possible?
Hi Michael,
currently Syncope requires a password associated to any user; the
password generation feature referenced above is only used during
synchronization from a specific resource (here is why you have found the
checkbox there).
Anyway, your suggestion makes completely sense, so I have opened
SYNCOPE-391 [1] that will be included in next major release 1.2.0,
currently planned for Q3 2013 [2].
A possible temporary workaround could be to customize the admin console
(you have to know a bit of Wicket for this) in order to provide a
default password value, when not specified.
Basically, you would need t:
1. download [3] and copy it under your project's
console/src/main/java/org/apache/syncope/console/pages/panels (create
intermediate directories if needed)
2. modify UserDetailsPanel around lines 89:103 by doing something similar:
password.setMoldeObject("YOUR_DEFAUT_PASSWORD_VALUE");
confirmPassword.setMoldeObject("YOUR_DEFAUT_PASSWORD_VALUE");
Finally, you need to remove any password policy, or at least configure
them for allowing reuse of old passwords and the default password value
specified above.
HTH
Regards.
[1] https://issues.apache.org/jira/browse/SYNCOPE-391
[2]
https://cwiki.apache.org/confluence/display/SYNCOPE/Roadmap#Roadmap-1.2.0%28Intermezzo%29
[3]
https://svn.apache.org/repos/asf/syncope/branches/1_1_X/console/src/main/java/org/apache/syncope/console/pages/panels/UserDetailsPanel.java
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