Currently SolarNode persists the Setup web app user credentials via the SettingDao API, which is implemented by default via a JDBC service that stores the data in the SOLARNODE.SN_SETTINGS database table. This is convenient in that the credentials are saved/backed up/restored with all the other SolarNode settings. This is less convenient when wanting to share setting CSV exports or restore from backup where you want to restore a node's certificate/identity but not any of the plugin settings.

This ticket is a proposal to move the user credentials out of the SN_SETTINGS table into their own database, that is backed up/restored as a separate backup resource from the main "settings" table.