Magnolia 5.5 reached end of life on November 15, 2019. This branch is no longer supported, see End-of-life policy.
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If you duplicate an existing password using the Duplicate password action in the Action bar of the app, the duplicated (new) password's value remains the same as the original but it is assigned a new UUID number. |
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Let's suppose you want to use a password stored in the Passwords app in the configuration of how Magnolia sends emails, i.e. in the configuration dialog of the Mail app. Go to the Mail app and depending on whether you want to use
Authentication with username and password
, or Authentication with OAuth 2.0
fill in the fields for the Username
, Client ID
, Refresh Token
and then at the Password field
or the Client Secret
field, respectively, click the SELECT ANOTHER button. A dialog will open allowing you to choose a password from the passwords stored using the Passwords app:
In this way you can reuse one and the same password in more apps and remember fewer passwords.
Do not use module and relative path to reference a password in the registry. There are several drawbacks to this method. Rather, use the password's JCR UUID.
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