Security

Allows you to authenticate a user with a third-party repository, or to perform a custom security function.

Example

http://12.3.4.56:9000/action=Security&UserName=Administrator&Repository=NT&Function=Authenticate&Password=abc123&Domain=mycompany

This action requests authentication for the Administrator user and the password abc123 for an NT repository using the domain mycompany.

Required Parameters

The following action parameters are required.

Parameter Description
Password The user security repository password.

You must set one of the following parameters.

Parameter Description
UID The user ID of the user to authenticate.
UserName The user name of the user to authenticate.

Optional Parameters

This action accepts the following optional parameters.

Parameter Description
Domain The NT domain of the user.
Function The function to perform.
Group The LDAP user directory.
GroupDN The group object that the user must belong to.
GroupMemberAttribute The attribute that determines that a user is a group member.
InputEncoding The encoding of the Password and UserName.
LoginFieldValue The value for the user that must occur in the configured LoginFieldName.
OutputEncoding The encoding to convert the results to.
Repository The security repository.

This action accepts the following standard ACI action parameters.

Parameter Description
ActionID A string to use to identify an ACI action.
EncryptResponse Encrypt the output.
FileName The file to write output to.
ForceTemplateRefresh Forces the server to load the template from disk.
Output Writes output to a file.
ResponseFormat The format of the action output.
Template The template to use for the action output.
TemplateParamCSVs A list of variables to use for the specified template.