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how to implement customized single signon in Documentum

Asked by: sukumarrao

Hi,

I'm trying to find out a way to implement single sign-on in Documentum with customization. I know few softwares  like Netigrity Site Minder and Trusted Content Services by which single sign-on can be implemented. But i'm looking to achieve through customization for Webtop.
    Please let me know basic details which required to perform this.

Regards,
Sukumar

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2009-03-19 at 23:08:27ID24248434
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Answers

 

by: wiremeupPosted on 2009-03-20 at 09:54:29ID: 23941281

 

by: omoralesmPosted on 2009-03-20 at 11:23:31ID: 23942254

Authentication is not provided by Webtop, it is provided by Content Server. If you like to authenticate against something that supports LDAP you can try configuring that service through the Documentum Administrator, however if you are want to authenticate against some home made system or anything else you should customize the dm_check_password, which is the program that CS uses for the authentication process. Look for it in the Documentum Content Server Administration Guide of the version you are using.

 

by: sukumarraoPosted on 2009-03-22 at 04:40:04ID: 23951151

Hi,

To make it very clear, when user login to windows machine( which gets authenticated in LDAP) and if he tried to open webtop say http://server:8080/webtop then it needs to retrieve authentication details from local machine and should  open webtop with that windows users credetials. I can configure LDAP object in content server and can run  dm_LDAPSychronization job daily to import the new users from LDAP. But still user needs to enter his credentials in webtop. This is the thing which i need to Bypass .

Regards,
Sukumar

 

by: omoralesmPosted on 2009-03-24 at 10:35:12ID: 23970963

Could you please post the Content Server and Webtop version? Thanks

 

by: sukumarraoPosted on 2009-03-24 at 22:04:45ID: 23976188

My CS version was 6.0 sp1 and webtop was also 6.0 sp1 installed on Windows server 2003 sp2



 

by: sukumarraoPosted on 2009-03-26 at 10:47:41ID: 23993162

Hi,

I had implemented SSO using JCIFS for Application deployed in tomcat. Can we integrate this with webtop to achieve SSO.

Regards,
Sukumar

 

by: omoralesmPosted on 2009-03-26 at 11:40:01ID: 23993749

I think it is more complex, reviewing the  WDK 6SP1 Deployment Guidei only find that SSO is possible through RSA ClearTrust or CA SiteMinder, however this are like out of the box plugins, so you may need to create kind of a custom plugin following the instructions in the CS Administration Guide to match the functionality of these and configure your webtop in the same way. It looks like it will need a lot of work...

 

by: sukumarraoPosted on 2009-03-28 at 12:13:58ID: 24009732

Thanks for suggestion. I'll try to develop custom pluggin for that and let you know and definately give you points after a day or two :)

 

by: sukumarraoPosted on 2009-03-31 at 12:26:30ID: 24032609

Hi,

i had captured logged-in user id along with domin name and passing this to custom component in webtop. In that component i am creating ticket for that user using super user session like

String userTicket =   superuserSession.getTicketForUser("captured_username");


Is this the right way ?

Regards,
Sukumar

 

by: omoralesmPosted on 2009-03-31 at 16:17:04ID: 24034753

Is superuserSession a IDfSession object? Because I don't have the getTicketForUSer method documented on the DFC Javadocs.

 

by: sukumarraoPosted on 2009-04-01 at 05:57:41ID: 24038592

Sorry. actual method is getLoginTicketForUser(String userName)  which is present in IDfSession and in my case superuserSession is of type IDfSession

so i ot the ticket by using

String userTicket = superuserSession.getLoginTicketForUser("captured_username");

Regards,
Sukumar

 

by: sukumarraoPosted on 2009-04-04 at 02:06:31ID: 31560409

Got some idea but still its not clear on how to achieve this.

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