Introduction
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The JADE YADE Credential Store allows the secure storage and retrieval of credentials for authentication, as well as connection and other parameters. - The JADE YADE Credential Store uses the KeePass password safe to provide encrypted storage of parameters in a protected database.
- Access to the Credential Store is available by public/private key and password authentication.
- Configuration items for JADE YADE File Transfer Profiles can be stored securely in the credential store - no need to specify passwords an in clear text in JADE YADE configuration files.
The store can be used when YADE is used stand-alone or within the JobScheduler via the Jobs JADEJob & JADE4DMZJob. |
Features
The Credential Store provides the following features:
- Compliance:
- All sensitive configuration information is encrypted.
- Access to the Credential Store can be securely protected by password, key file or password and key file.
"Password-free" authentication is possible. - Connection Authentication files such as public key files are used without being written to the file system.
- Management
- Configuration information can be centrally managed outside of a file transfer environment.
- Deployment
- The same file transfer configuration file can be used for development and production environments - only the Credential Store needs to be changed during deployment.
- Scope
- The Credential Store can be used for the following configuration information:
- file transfer source, target, proxy and jump host / DMZ,
- pre- and post-processing operations.
- The Credential Store can be used for file transfers carried out with both the YADE Client and the JobScheduler JADEJob and JADE4DMZJob JITL jobs.
- Database Format and Applications
- The Credential Store uses the standard
.kdb
or .kdbx
open database formats. A number of commercial and open source tools are available for configuring these database formats on a range of operating systems. These tools include KeePass 1.x, KeePass 2.x and KeePassX.
The use and configuration of a Credential Store is described in detail in the Using Credential Store to securely store authentication, connection and other parameters article.
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