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  • 1.  DXManager External authentication

    Posted Mar 15, 2015 05:50 PM

    Hi,

     

    I'm not able to find documentation on how to externalize login to dxmanager.

     

    Basically, instead of using dxmanager to login to DXManager, I want to point it to my active directory and authenticate users from there.

     

    It'll probably involve setting up a realm in dxwebserver. But I was wondering if there are official instructions somewhere to do this?

     

    Regards,

    Anand.



  • 2.  Re: DXManager External authentication

    Posted May 18, 2015 08:58 PM

    Hello Anand,

     

    We have never had a request to externalize the authentication used by DXmanager, and as such, don't have official instructions for moving from a UserDatabaseRealm (conf/tomcat-users.xml) to a JNDIRealm (http://tomcat.apache.org/tomcat-6.0-doc/realm-howto.html#JNDIRealm)

     

    I can't see why this wouldn't be possible given that Tomcat configuration files are retained over an upgrade.

     

    Two unknowns:

    * Assigning the "dxmanagerSuperUser" role to the AD authenticated uers

    * If the 'j_security_check' servlet security check utilized by the login page will map to the new realm in Tomcat.

     

    Thanks,

     

    Justin