Passwords

This page configures the various options related to Passwords, the Keystore password, and Password policies.

Note

User passwords may be changed in the Users dialog box accessed from the Users, Groups, Roles page.

Active keystore password provider

This option sets the active keystore password provider, via a list of all available keystore password providers.

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Active keystore password provider

To change the keystore password click the Change password link.

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Changing the keystore password

Warning

First thing to do as an Administrator of the System, would be to dump the Keystore Password generated by GeoServer, store it somewhere not accessible by anyone, and delete any security/masterpw.info or whatever file you used to dump the password in clear.

Keystore Password Providers

This section provides the options for adding, removing, and editing keystore password providers.

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Keystore password provider list

Note

By default the login to Admin GUI and REST APIs with Keystore Password is disabled. In order to enable it you will need to manually change the Keystore Password Provider config.xml, usually located into security/masterpw/default/config.xml, by adding the following statement:

``<loginEnabled>true</loginEnabled>``

Password policies

This section configures the various Password policies available to users in GeoServer. New password policies can be added or renamed, and existing policies edited or removed.

By default there are two password policies in effect, default and root. The default password policy, intended for most GeoServer users, does not have any active password constraints. The keystore password policy, intended for the Root account, specifies a minimum password length of eight characters. Password policies are applied to users via the user/group service.

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List of password policies

Clicking an existing policy enables editing, while clicking the Add new button will create a new password policy.

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Creating a new password policy

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