Adobe 65029902 User Guide - Page 18

USING ROBOHELP SERVER 8 15 Managing the server Important: You cannot make this area protected and it cannot be deleted. To make an area protected, you can select the Protected area option in the Users page of the Web Admin interface. You can define several sets of privilege groups and assign different rights to different users. These rights include view only, publish, admin rights, and viewing reports. You can manage the groups and their privileges from RoboHelp Server Web Admin pages. RoboHelp Server 8 provides user authentication through both database and LDAP. Authenticate LDAP users You can use the _server.properties file to authenticate an LDAP user or an administrator. Do the following: • Comment the authtype = db property, specify your LDAP username in the DefaultAdminUid property, and do not specify your LDAP password in the DefAdminPwd property. • Uncomment and specify your organization LDAP details: authtype = ldap ldapURL = ldap://ldapserver:389 usersearchbase = ou=people,o=org rolesearchbase = ou=groups,o=org useridkey = uid rolename = cn rolesearch = uniqueMember • Restart the Tomcat service to log in as an LDAP user. The following table lists the properties stored in the _server.properties file: Property Name DatabaseType DSN authtype ldapURL usersearchbase rolesearchbase useridkey rolename rolesearch DefAdminUID Description Property Value Required (Yes/No) Specifies the database used oracle/access/sql (access by default) Yes (supported types are oracle/access/sql) If oracle or sql database, specifies the DSN name dsn used to connect to database required for Oracle and SQL databases Specifies the authentication db/ldap yes mechanism used. LDAP server URL URL of LDAP Server of the organization if authtype is ldap User search base URL of LDAP Server of the organization if authtype is ldap Role search base Subcontext in LDAP server in which role information is stored if authtype is ldap User ID key which stores the User ID in user ID key the LDAP server if authtype is ldap Role Name key which stores the role role name key name in the LDAP Server if authtype is ldap Attribute to be searched in the role name role attribute name if authtype is ldap When server is started for the first time, User ID which has admin access to yes server is not connected to the RoboHelp Server by default. database. Therefore, access permissions for a given user cannot be verified. Provide a default user ID which has the admin rights and can access the web admin.