LDAP Integration

chandub

Hi,
I defined my user roles in LDAP and i can login to teamsite perfectly.
When i started a workflow , where i need to select the author(authors) and approvers(editors) , I was able to get the users list from LDAP without any modification in my wft file which is coded as author.uid and editor.uid for authors and approvers.

Is that once the LDAP is configured for teamsite user lists, users with teamsiterole as author in LDAP will be treated as author.uid and so on?

And also let me know in teamsite 5.5.2 still we need to have the OS level authentication when we configure LDAP.
and only the author authentication is provided by the LDAP?


Chandra

tvaughan

HI Chandra,

I'm not an expert at the inner-workings of Interwoven's authentication process, but having configured my TS 5.5.2 system for NDS LDAP authentication, it appears to me as though when TS starts up, it connects to LDAP and attempts to verify & cache their authentication information.

If you've configured TeamSiteRoles to come from LDAP, then this would explain why things continue to work. However, have you 'cleared out' your *.uid files? Because if they are still there, you can't be 100% sure that's not what Interwoven is using.

To answer your question about OS-level authentication: in order to add a new user to TeamSite, that user must be recognized by the Operating System before TeamSite will add that person as a user. Thus, your OS and TeamSite should probably be pointing at the same location.

Tom