OTDSWS login with a custom OAUTH handler

Alvin Poon

I tried to configure a custom OAUTH2 handler in OTDS Admin, and sucessfully login by the OpenAM (OAUTH2 Provider) Auth page and go into the OTCS page in Browser. 

Is it possible to use the  same mechanism of OAUTH2 with the  ../otdsws/services/Authentication  or  ..cws/services/Authentication ? 

And is it possible only use OAUTH2 token to pass through the OTDSWS Authentication? 

I'm testing the WS by soapUI and found the user account i can use is different from those in Browser.

 

Thanks.

 

 

jdonpaul

Hi,

It is entirely possible to use an OAuth token to authenticate your user. How to accomplish this is to basically pass the token to OTDS so that the authentication handler can validate the token. In order to do this, you can use the OTDSWS web service to make a call to the method AuthenticateWithToken and pass the token that you recieved from the OAuth Authentication.

Here is another posting explain how they were able to authenticate without passing credentials:

https://knowledge.opentext.com/knowledge/cs.dll/Open/60904563

Hope this help,

Jerome