The Security → Security Groups page can be reached by clicking the menu item.
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Active Directory Authentication types Flowster Studio uses two values for the authentication type in the Active Directory entries: Secure and Secure Socket Layer. The Secure one: requests secure authentication. When this flag is set, the WinNT provider uses NTLM to authenticate the client. Active Directory Domain Services uses Kerberos, and possibly NTLM, to authenticate the client. When the user name and password are a null reference (Nothing in Visual Basic), ADSI binds to the object using the security context of the calling thread, which is either the security context of the user account under which the application is running or of the client user account that the calling thread is impersonating. The Secure Socket Layer one: Attaches a cryptographic signature to the message that both identifies the sender and ensures that the message has not been modified in transit. Active Directory Domain Services requires the Certificate Server be installed to support Secure Sockets Layer (SSL) encryption. Active Directory supports both Kerberos and NTLM. Windows will first try Kerberos and if all the requirements are not met, it will fallback to NTLM. Keberos is the default authentication method for AD but it can fallback to NTLM in some cases, but that is handled by Windows itself. Kerberos is used every time a login to an AD is made. As an example, accessing file share by name like \server1\share would invoke Kerberos and should succeed given proper permision. But accessing same file share using IP address would invoke Kerberos first and fail (as there is no SPN for IP Address) and then fail over to NTLM. Here are some links for a better understanding of how the two protocols are working: https://msdn.microsoft.com/en-us/library/bb742516.aspx https://blogs.msdn.microsoft.com/chiranth/2013/09/20/ntlm-want-to-know-how-it-works/ |
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During installation, a super admin user must be entered in order to successfully install the application on a computer. The Super Admin set during installation, can be a custom user (custom users are database users thus no authentication provider is required) or selected from an Active Directory OU, is the only one that can access Flowster Studio components at login. He will be the only one that can define other Active Directory, Google, Azure or Local/Custom users/groups as super admins, administrators or users, by adding them into specific security groups types.
The predefined SuperAdmins group cannot be deleted from Administrator. Also, if there is only 1 user in the SuperAdmins group, it will not be deleted (there should be at least 1 user in this type of group).
On the SuperAdmins group can be performed the following operations:
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The Update cache for users button can be used when the data (ex. users) update from database was not automatically done.
Load only custom users: if this option is checked, the user can see only the custom users spread through all security groups.
Export Custom Users:
- click on Export Custom Users
- the custom users will be exported in a csv file
Import Custom Users:
- click Choose file
- select the csv file that you want to import
- click Import
Note: Passwords can be filled in the csv file and imported with the user's data. Dates can be modified, but the format must be kept dd/mm/yyyy.
Other Security Groups
Administrator gives users the possibility to create unlimited number of security groups and subgroups, as well as adding Active Directory, Google, Azure or Local users or groups into manually created groups.
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- Select a group from the groups list and click the Add Child button from the Selected Admin Group Info panel or right-click on the group and select Add New Child option.
- The Choose Provider window will open allowing the user to select the provider for the new child:
- Selecting an AD provider:
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- Selecting an Azure provider:
- The AD Browser window will open
- search after a User or a Group (if no value is set in the search filter then all the results will be displayed)
- select and add the desired users/groups into the Final List area and click Save Changes
- Selecting a Google provider:
- The AD Browser window will open
- insert a Google e-mail address
- insert a display name for the given address
- Selecting a Custom Provider
- The Add Custom Flowster User window will open
- Insert Username
- Click Generate Password - the Password and Confirm Password fields will be prefilled with the generated password
- Check Change password at next login if you want to change the generated password at next login
- Insert Email address
- Insert Name
- Choose activation date (optional)
- Choose expiration date (optional)
- Click Add User in order to save the configuration
User can manage the defined groups by editing or removing them. The added children can also be managed by dragging them from a group to another one or by completely removing them.
In order to edit a group/subgroup, follow the next steps:
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