Artifactory stores all security information as part of its internal storage.You can bootstrap Artifactory with a predefined security configuration by creating an $JFROG_HOME/artifactory/var/etc/artifactory/security.import.xml file containing the Artifactory exported security configuration information.
If Artifactory detects this file at startup, it uses the information in the file to override all security settings. This is useful if you want to copy the security configuration to another instance of Artifactory.