As of 7.0, the repository migration tool does not migrate users’ web service passwords.
I believe all passwords are not carried over as it’s a potential security loophole. We have already improved our v7.1 docs to mention this.
Isn’t it more of a security loophole to skip them? If a user with full farm privileges is migrated and their web service password doesn’t carry over, anyone can authenticate with the web service as them and do anything they could do. Same goes for the super-user password.
Actually, I stand corrected here Nathan…
It’s because the way the passwords are encrypted changed between Deadline 6 and 7. So Deadline 7 can’t properly decrypt passwords encrypted by Deadline 6, and vice versa.
Maybe in Deadline 8, we can update the importer to check the repository version. If it’s 7 and later, then we can import the passwords. If it’s 6, then we skip them.
Ah, OK, that makes more sense. Thanks Mike.