Question

Select user password from Connector as source for container

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Working on the BounceTravel example, I cannot select System.User.Password from the Connector as it isn't shown there. Other attributes of Customer, Account and User are shown. However when placing an input box on the page and then setting the data source of it, I was able to select the Password attribute. Why doesn't the Password attribute appear in the Connector?

asked 2015-11-13

Jacob Vos

2 answers

Paul Ketelaars · Answer 1 · 2015-11-13

The password attribute of the User entity shouldn't be used as this is the actual, hashed, password. In case you want to change / edit / create a new user password, use the AccountPasswordData entity in the Administration module

Dexx · Answer 2 · 2015-11-13

The more generic answer is that the password attribute is of type hashed string. Hashed strings are a security measure and it is generally a best practice not to allow users direct access to them in the UI, which is why we screen them from the connector. As Paul Ketelaars already stated you should probably make use of the attribute by proxy rather than passing it directly.