Password Data blob when migrating User Directory data to a new store

Products

• CA Single Sign-On
• SITEMINDER

Issue/Introduction

When planning to migrate users from the current User Directory to a new one, currently the environment uses this User Directory for Password Services (1).

As part of the migration, the user password attributes (including the disabled flag, and password blob) will be migrated to the new store.

Then, the User Directory on the AdminUI settings will be changed to use the new one.

When doing this, could the password data attribute be lost?

Could this cause any impact on losing the encrypted data from the password attributes?

 

Resolution

 
As there are not going to be any other changes rather than the User Directory itself, and the user structure and content will be maintained, there will not be any problem, as the password blob is still stored (and moved), so the Policy Server it is the same one using the same session key to decrypt the password blob (2).

So, as long as the password data attribute containing the blob is maintained in the new User Directory, the Policy Server will be able to decrypt it when needed again.

 

Additional Information

 

1. Configure a LDAP User Store connection - Password Data
       
2. Password policy data consideration when Upgrading Siteminder