CentraSite provides a secure password store for managing the passwords of login users whose credentials are required for internal communication between CentraSite components. Examples of are the use of policies such as Promote Asset and Initiate Approval, which policies cause a lifecycle model state change that requires the approval of an authorized login user.

This password store exists in parallel to the user repository that CentraSite uses for authentication of users. There is no automatic synchronization of passwords between the user repository and the password store. The password for a given login user in the password store must be the same as the password for the same login user in the user repository. If you change a password in the user repository, you must manually update the password in the password store to the same new password.

To change the password for a login user in the password store, go to the <CentraSiteInstallDir>/utilities directory and run this command: