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The Community Portal has two three main methods of allowing authentication:

• Database authentication (default)
• SAML authentication (recommended)
• Windows/Trusted IIS authenticationdatabase authentication.

Also see Security settings AnchorH_28327H_28327 (on page ).

Windows authentication

To use Windows Authentication in the Community Portal:

1. Disable anonymous authentication and enable Windows Authentication in IIS. See IIS server registry settings (on page ).
2. Create a group (for example, ParentPortal) in Active Directory containing all the parent logins.
3. Locate the portal folder. For example, C:\inetpub\wwwroot\SynergeticCommunityPortal.
4. Add the group that you have created to the portal folder so that the group has READ and EXECUTE rights.
5. 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 AnchorH_28668H_28668 (on page ).
6. 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 AnchorH_23618H_23618 (on page ).

To allow community member accounts to use trusted authentication:

1. Set the IIS server to use trusted authentication. See IIS server registry settings (on page ).
2. Open the Other tab of Community Maintenance. See Community Maintenance - Other tab in the Synergetic Community manual.
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3. Click Image Removed to Image Added to add a network login name and password to allow the community member to access the portal. See Managing Community Portal accounts AnchorH_23624H_23624 (on page ).
4. Click Image Removed Image Added 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 AnchorH_23650H_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 AnchorH_28356H_28356 (on page ).