The Community Portal has two three main methods of allowing authentication:
- Database authentication (default)
- SAML authentication (recommended)
- Windows/Trusted IIS authentication
- database authentication.
Also see Security settings Anchor H_28327 H_28327 (on page ).
Windows authentication
To use Windows Authentication in the Community Portal:
- Disable anonymous authentication and enable Windows Authentication in IIS. See IIS server registry settings (on page ).
- Create a group (for example, ParentPortal) in Active Directory containing all the parent logins.
- Locate the portal folder. For example, C:\inetpub\wwwroot\SynergeticCommunityPortal.
- Add the group that you have created to the portal folder so that the group has READ and EXECUTE rights.
- In the SynCommPortal.xml file, define the login type:
• 1 - Windows Authentication using network login name. This is located on the Other tab of Community Maintenance. For example, DOMAIN\UserName (no password required).
• 2 - Windows Authentication using Synergetic ID. For example, DOMAIN\12455 (no password required).
See Editing the SynCommPortal.xml configuration file
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- Ensure the portal default page is intro.asp. For example, http://SynergeticCommunityPortal/Intro.aspx.
Trusted authentication
Trusted authentication can be from active directory or Novell if integrating with e-directory. The IIS user name can then be validated against the user's:
- Community ID
- Network Login Name (on the Other tab in Community Maintenance).
See Single sign on authentication settings Anchor H_23618 H_23618 (on page ).
To allow community member accounts to use trusted authentication:
- Set the IIS server to use trusted authentication. See IIS server registry settings (on page ).
- Open the Other tab of Community Maintenance. See Community Maintenance - Other tab in the Synergetic Community manual.
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- Click to to add a network login name and password to allow the community member to access the portal. See Managing Community Portal accounts
Anchor H_23624 H_23624 (on page ). - Click to import network login information from a file.
Database authentication
This stores the user login name and password inside the Synergetic database. The passwords are encrypted within the database.
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For example: 1001,Pa$$w0rd,J
See Creating community portal Community Portal accounts in a batch (on page ).
To allow community member accounts to use database authentication, set the IIS server to use database authentication. See IIS server registry settings Anchor H_23650 H_23650 (on page ).
You can also configure the Community Portal to run multiple databases at once. See Running the community portal Community Portal against multiple database servers Anchor H_28356 H_28356 (on page ).