Hi,
We see no support for reading basic user passwords using SDK.
Will the support be added?
BasicUser bu = ManagementServer.BasicUserFolder.BasicUsers.FirstOrDefault();
no method to read existing password.
Thanks,
Vega support.
No, from a security standpoint I think it would be bad if there was such method. I believe it is a security principle that is commonly agreed upon that an administrator cannot read the user’s password.
It is however possible to change the password.. VideoOS.Platform.ConfigurationItems.BasicUser.ChangePasswordBasicUser
Hello,
I just wanted to confirm that @Bo Ellegård Andersen (Milestone Systems) is correct that you can’t retrieve the basic user password and add that the password is never actually stored by the Identity Server so we could not send it if we wanted to. All modern identity systems are designed such that only an irreversible “hash” of the password is ever stored. During authentication, the password sent by the user is hashed and compared to the hash stored in the database.
The passwords of cameras and other devices are stored by the VMS since the devices generally expect us to authenticate using the password, so for that reason you can retrieve hardware passwords as we do store those (in an encrypted form) even though basic user passwords can’t be retrieved.