Enabling Windows Authentication - Advanced Design and Setup - Foundation 23.2 - Foundation 23.2 - Ready - Content Composer - external - Content-Composer/Advanced-Design-and-Setup/Foundation-23.2/Content-Composer-Advanced-Design-and-Setup/User-Management-Configuration/Enabling-Windows-Authentication - 2023-12-18

Content Composer Advanced Design and Setup
Platform
Content Composer
Product
Advanced Design and Setup
Release
Foundation 23.2
License
ft:locale
en-US
To enable Windows authentication, complete the following steps.

This change affects the following Content Composer applications.

  • Content Composer Studio when launched with start parameter /credentials:input.
  • Content Composer Client when launched with start parameter /credentials:input.
  • Content Composer Web Client
  1. From the %Composerdir% directory, open Composer.Core.exe.config with a text editor that supports UTF-8.
  2. If the <serviceCredentials> element exists in the file, remove the element or comment it out.

    Example 

    <behavior name="STSBehaviour">
     <!--  <serviceCredentials> 
         <userNameAuthentication userNamePasswordValidationMode="Custom" customUserNamePasswordValidatorType="ModusSuite.Runtime.STS.LdapUserNamePasswordValidator, ModusSuite.Runtime.STSRuntimeService" /> 
      </serviceCredentials>  -->
   </behavior> 
...
  3. Save and close the file.
  4. From the %Composerdir% directory, open the UserRepository.config file with a text editor that supports UTF-8.
  5. Set the userStore attribute value to Windows.
  6. Save and close the file.
  7. Restart the Composer.Core service.