CAST Engineering Dashboard - WAR Deployment - LDAP - How to validate the Authentication and Authorization

This page provides you with the steps to validate Authentication and Authorization for CED.

1. CED supports only Microsoft Active directory (AD), so check if Microsoft Active directory is being used:
   

   1. The structure of user must be an objectClass:

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   2. There is a user principal name as attribute, and must be as follows: login@domain

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   3. The structure of the group must be a groupClass

2. From LDAP client search for the OU field in the web.xml file under naming.ldap.ou:

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3. The group should be under the OU tree

4. The group should contain the name of the central schema or the name of the defined naming service in the web.xml file (naming.ldap.service):

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5. The user should be a member of the group:
   

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6.  The user should be part of Users Administration Page:

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