ActiveSync - link resource account and password push

Question

Is it possible to push a password from an IDM account to a resource account at the same time as linking the two accounts, during ActiveSync?
Scenario: I have an account in IDM and an account on a resource. I use ActiveSync to "discover" the account on the resource and link the IDM account with the resource account. At the same time I would like to push the IDM password to the resource. Thereby, synchronizing the IDM password with the resource password.
I have unsuccessfully tried to accomplish this in many ways:
1) Within the Admin GUI, I've edited an account and when I assign the resource to the account the password in IDM does not push to the resource.
2) Within ActiveSync, I have used global.password, password.password, password.confirmPassword, password.targets, password.accounts[resource].selected
NOTES:
- when the account exists on the resource and IDM links to the resource account, the password does not push
- when the account does not exist on the resource and IDM is required to create the resource account, the password is pushed
At this point my guess is that I will have to kick off a workflow to trigger the password push as the ActiveSync cannot handle linking and subsequently updating an attribute on that resource at the same time. Any ideas would be helpful. Thank you in advance.

Answer 1

I have been able to successfully push the password to the resource both during activesync and within the Admin console. However, I have found some inconsistencies with IDM that might need attention or an explanation.
First off, the key to pushing the password from IDM to the resource in the above scenario is....within the Resource Schema don't map IDM user attribute "password" but map an attribute such as "resource_password" to the password field on the resource. When I did this, I was able to provision the resource to the user in IDM and push the password to the existing resource account.
Secondly, there is an inconsistency with IDM and how it treats password and the other fields. I mapped lastname to a field on the resource. From the admin console, I edited the user and the only change I made was to provision the resource to the user (Resources tab). After saving this user, the lastname field from IDM was updated on the resource.
Why doesn't this work with password?