Authentication Service

Overview

The administration page to set the Authentication Service of FMR has controls for the different security services. Use the drop-down at the top of the page to select the service you require. The current options are:

• None
• Active Directory
• LDAP
• Fusion Security

Configuring Active Directory

When Active Directory has been chosen as the Authentication Mechanism, the following information needs to be provided

• The protocol type: either ldap or ldaps
• The IP address or name of the server hosting the Active Directory instance
• The Active Directory Domain
• The Base Group Domain Name (optional) - if this is left blank, the root of the Active Directory instance will be used to locate users
• The User Search Filter (optional)

Most of these settings are fairly self-explanatory

The User Search Filter

If this field is left blank, the following value will be used:

(&(objectClass=user)(userPrincipalName={0}))

This states that the search filter is looking for objects in Active Directory of class "user" and where the User Principal Name of those objects is the value as specified by {0}. {0} is a placeholder for the value the user types in to FMR in order to become authenticated, however there are some subtleties. In the User Search field there are two placeholder values:

• {0} - is the "bind principal". This is the username that the user types into the login dialog (when attempting to login). However if this value does NOT contain an "@", then the domain name is appended to it. For example, if the user attempts to log in as "Alice", on the domain
• {1} - is the "username" only. This corresponds exactly to the username

Since version 11.16.1 of FMR, there is also the ability from this page to test the log-on for a particular user. This allows