Magnolia 5.5 reached end of life on November 15, 2019. This branch is no longer supported, see End-of-life policy.
The Passwords app, installed by the Password manager module, allows you to manage (add, import, change, delete) passwords centrally in the administration of Magnolia. By default the app is provisioned to the superuser
role only.
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In the browser subapp, use create/delete and use folders to organize the passwords:
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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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Magnolia 5.6 (or earlier??) A use case: Mail app 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
fill in the fields for the 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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