[Unity-idm-discuss] Unity upgrade 1.9.6 to 2.4.0, password issues

[Willem E. <wi...@cl...>]

Hi Krzysztof,

we are trying to upgrade our unity instance to a recent 2.x version (2.6.x
preferably).

The upgrade from 1.9.6 to 2.0.0 seems to go fine, but then upgrading to
2.4.0 or anything higher results in users without password. As far as I can
see in section 4.2.4 of the upgrade documentation there is no specific
action required with respect to existing password, even though a new
sys:password credential has been introduced. I've also noticed that on a
fresh 2.4.0 test installation our admin user is requested to update the
credential because of the credential requirements.

In our 1.9.6 installation we are using a custom password credential, but
this is included in the database export:

...
{
      "id" : 10,
      "name" : "sys:Credential:Password credential",
      "contents" : {
        "flags" : 3,
        "maxElements" : 1,
        "minElements" : 1,
        "selfModificable" : false,
        "uniqueValues" : false,
        "visibility" : "local",
        "syntaxState" :
"{\"regexp\":\"\",\"minLength\":0,\"maxLength\":10240}",
        "displayedName" : {
          "DefaultValue" : "sys:Credential:Password credential",
          "Map" : { }
        },
        "i18nDescription" : {
          "DefaultValue" : null,
          "Map" : {
            "en" : "Credential of Password credential"
          }
        },
        "metadata" : { }
      },
      "valueSyntaxId" : "string"
    }
...

With the log level on debug there is no clear indication of any issue
during the database restore or server startup. I assume this credential
definition gets imported as well. Is that correct?

When trying to log in we get the following error:

DEBUG unity.server.PasswordVerificator: The user has no password set: admin
DEBUG unity.server.PasswordVerificator: The user has no password set:
te...@cl...

Any idea what could be the issue here and how we can solve this?

Best,
Willem