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Status Under review
Created by Guest
Created on Jun 7, 2024

Certificate support for technical users

An enterprise business would rather like the opportunity to use certificates as a means of authentication for the technical users driving the Dynamic Workload Console.
During installation two specific technical users are needed for DWC (One database admin user and one regular user). Today these both needs to be configured with a password.
In itself, this breaks our password policies as we avoid set passwords as much as we possibly can, specially for technical users which in a lot of cases, have high authorization in the environment.
Using certificates for these users would be better, as storing passwords in enterprise production environments is a big security risk.

Idea priority Medium
  • Guest
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    Jul 9, 2024

    This absolutely makes sense that certificate-based authentication should be baked into the standard product offering.