is external authorization possible in ihub?

Can authorization be done externally? The whole point is, having authorization in an external data source and not defining inside the ihub.
 
If yes, 
1) Where these code has to be implemented?
2) What are the libraries needs to be referred?
3) Whether this has to be written in RSSE? If so, what is the method to override?
 
Any samples/references/suggestions would be of great help.

Find more posts tagged with

Comments

Clement Wong

Yes, out of the box, the iHub supports LDAP and Active Directory. If using any other external data system, you'll need to implement a custom RSSE (Report Server Security Extension). 
Manual: 
<a data-ipb='nomediaparse' href='http://developer.actuate.com/be/documentation/ihub31-dev/AIG-main/index.html#page/aig/UsingJavaRSSE.17.2.html#'>http://developer.actuate.com/be/documentation/ihub31-dev/AIG-main/index.html#page/aig/UsingJavaRSSE.17.2.html#</a> 
Reference Implementation 
<a data-ipb='nomediaparse' href='https://github.com/ActuateBIRT/ServerIntegrationRSSEExample'>https://github.com/ActuateBIRT/ServerIntegrationRSSEExample</a>

bcmp

RSSE is for referring the user and role names from external system. That's perfectly fine.
 
Is there a way to pull the documents related ACL from external system. For example report1 has read access for user1, user2 and report2 has read and write access to user2. If so, kindly do share the ways.

Clement Wong

Share permissions (aka privileges on files/folders) can not be read from an external system. You can use IDAPI to set the permissions based of definitions from an external system, but this scheduled/on-demand task would be outside of the RSSE and iHub.