create users within Cognos for authentication

[lecarlos]

Here at Company XXX we are considering changing Cognos authentication method from Active Directory to something simpler, if possible something within Cognos itself. Our application will be made available to other departments within Company XXX that are on different Active Directory implementation. Management here wants to avoid creating multiple AD namespaces within Cognos as they all follow different rules. I wanted to check and see what your recommendation would be, and is it possible to create users within Cognos for authentication? I tried researching little bit but did not find any straight forward method. Please send your recommendations to this question.

Regards,

akatude007

[MFGF]

Hi,

Cognos 8 does not have any inbuilt mechanism for creating and managing users and passwords. It relies on external authentication providers for this. You could perhaps look at installing a free LDAP such as ApacheDS (and a GUI like Apache Directory Studio) and use this LDAP as a single authentication source?

Cheers!

MF.

[bdbits]

Are they willing to establish trusts between the domains? I think C8 would honor groups with members from trusted domains. So that could be the simplest and quickest solution, but there are network and security implications they may not be willing to accommodate. Still, worth asking and giving it a go I would think.

[lecarlos]

Are they willing to establish trusts between the domains? I think C8 would honor groups with members from trusted domains. So that could be the simplest and quickest solution, but there are network and security implications they may not be willing to accommodate. Still, worth asking and giving it a go I would think.

bdbits - I appreciate your feedback!! Thanks for your help...

[lecarlos]

Hi,

Cognos 8 does not have any inbuilt mechanism for creating and managing users and passwords. It relies on external authentication providers for this. You could perhaps look at installing a free LDAP such as ApacheDS (and a GUI like Apache Directory Studio) and use this LDAP as a single authentication source?

Cheers!

MF.

MF - Thanks for your feedback!

MF - Thanks for your feeback!