make passwords configurable, create password exchange infrastructure
For compliance purposes and as a lesson learned from SC 00560356, I suggest improving the documentation and configurability of passwords throughout subsystems of Rosetta installations.
I suggest creating and maintaining a KB article on how and where to change passwords for:
- System user "dps"
- System user "oracle"
- Oracle user "sys"
- default Rosetta user "admin1" (John Smith)
- Cantaloupe Image Server user "admin" (changeable by configuring ".../system.dir/thirdparty/tomcat/rosetta-webapps/cantaloupe.war/cantaloupe.properties")
- Solr user
- Rosetta console UI user
The passwords for Solr and the Rosetta console UI cannot be changed at the moment (Rosetta 5.5.0.0); I suggest considering changes to enable institutions to set their own passwords.
Furthermore, I suggest that ExLibris set up suitable infrastructure for exchanging passwords securely. GPG-encrypted mail or a public write-only (!) storage would be suitable candidates, SupportCase comments (that might be publicly readable) and encrypted mobile instant messaging services like Signal (that often involve personal accounts/devices) are certainly not.