Hi Everyone,
Is there a way where appian can fetch the password of the loggedInUser.
If possible, please suggest an approach
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I'm not sure what the use case is here but being able to extract a user's password seems too me a huge security risk.
Hi Stewart,
Thanks for quick response.
We need to get the loggedIn username and password to make a request to SAP system.
I think there should be other ways to achieve this. Does it need to be the specific individual? i.e. could you call SAP with a generic "service account" ? (thee credentials you can store in the secure credentials store that Appian provides) and even if you do need to identify the user you can pass their userid in the payload whilst using the service account
Yes, whoever logs in and performs the transaction in appian, that SAP update should happen under the loggedIn person's name. Want to make a dynamic connection.
Just wanted to check is there any other approach.
I would definitely suggest that you separate the steps of authenticating into SAP versus providing the username of the user taking the current action. It would be trivially easy to include the current acting user's username along with whatever other data you're passing into SAP in your data packet. This should NEVER need to include that user's Appian password. Nor is there any way for it to.
Thanks for the response