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 such scenarios that require authentication credentials for internal communication are the use of policies such as Promote Asset and Initiate Approval. These 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.

The password store resides on the Software AG Runtime. If your CentraSite configuration uses more than one application server tier (AST), you must ensure that each AST uses an up-to-date version of the password store.

If you wish to change the password of a login user in the password store, use a command of the following format:

The following table describes the complete set of input parameters that you can use with the set Password utility: