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IBM Cognos 10 Platform => Cognos 10 BI => Cognos Administration => Topic started by: cognoska on 22 Apr 2012 08:49:13 AM

Title: User Accounts Switching Mid-Session? Cognos 10.1.1 with AD Authentication Issue!
Post by: cognoska on 22 Apr 2012 08:49:13 AM
Has anyone seen users switch accounts mid-session in Cognos Connection? We held UAT yesterday and found that in the middle of 3 users' Cognos sessions, after navigating to a new folder or running a report, the username at the top of the Cognos Connection page changed to someone else's username, and their access in Public Folders matched that username instead of the account that they logged in with. If they clicked on My Area Options > My Preferences > Renew the Credentials this resolved the problem.

We're on Cognos 10.1.1 using Active Directory for authentication, SSO is not enabled. Has anyone seen this issue before? Any advice on troubleshooting/resolving this? Thanks!
Title: Re: User Accounts Switching Mid-Session? Cognos 10.1.1 with AD Authentication Issue!
Post by: sir_jeroen on 23 Apr 2012 10:19:13 AM
How is your AD connection set up? As a Native Connection or as a LDAP Connection? What are you using for the user lookup search?
Title: Re: User Accounts Switching Mid-Session? Cognos 10.1.1 with AD Authentication Issue!
Post by: cognoska on 23 Apr 2012 11:11:44 AM
Screen shots of our authentication setup are attached - we have two Active Directory domains set up in the Cognos namespace. I'm not an authentication expert - where would I find the config for the user lookup search to let you know? Thanks again for your help - I appreciate it!