SMTP password overwritten with asterisks

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Area

admin/ui

Describe the bug

When using SMTP password authentication, saving realm settings in the UI without re-entering the password updates the password in the database to be all asterisks.

Version

26.2.4

Regression

• The issue is a regression

Expected behavior

The SMTP password should be unchanged.

Actual behavior

The password is saved as all asterisks.

How to Reproduce?

Configure a realm to use SMTP password authentication. Reopen the realm settings UI and press save.

Anything else?

No response

[isaacjensen]

I am experiencing this exact thing. No longer can send emails from Keycloak in 26.2.4

[ssilvert]

I have verified this bug as well.

[walsha2]

Keycloak Version: 26.2.2

Same here! For our case, we use helm to install a keycloak image and use YAML to configure the realm using the config CLI. The password is not saved properly. This was working fine in 26.1.2

The only way to resolve this is to manually re apply the SMTP password in the Keycloak admin UI. It seems to persist fine after re-applying the password. Of course until the next helm install where it is reset again.