TIBCO Spotfire® Server and Environment - Installation and Administration

config-auth

Configures authentication mode and default domain.

config-auth 
[-c value | --configuration=value] 
[-b value | --bootstrap-config=value] 
[-a value | --auth-method=value] 
[-d | --jaas-database] 
[-l | --jaas-ldap] 
[-w | --jaas-windows] 
[-j value | --jaas-custom=value] 
[-D value | --default-domain=value] 
[-p <true|false> | --parse-user-and-domain-name=<true|false>]
[-s value | --site-name=value]

Overview

Use this command to configure the authentication mode and to set the default domain.

Options

Option Optional or Required Default Value Description
-c value
--configuration=value
Optional configuration.xml The path to the server configuration file.
-b value
--bootstrap-config=value
Optional none The path to the bootstrap configuration file. See Bootstrap.xml file for more information about this file.
-a value
--auth-method=value
Optional none The authentication method to use. The following methods are supported: BASIC, CLIENT_CERT, NTLM, Kerberos, WEB, and EXTERNAL. The names can be specified in either uppercase or lowercase.
-d
--jaas-database
Optional none Use the Spotfire database authentication source, as configured in the Spotfire-DBLogin JAAS application configuration. This option is permitted only when using the BASIC authentication method. Also, it is mutually exclusive with all other options related to BASIC authentication sources.
-l
--jaas-ldap
Optional none Use the LDAP authentication source, as configured in the SpotfireLDAP JAAS application configuration. This option is permitted only when using the BASIC authentication method. Also, it is mutually exclusive with all other options related to BASIC authentication sources.
-w
--jaas-windows
Optional none Use the Windows NT authentication source, as configured in the SpotfireWindows JAAS application configuration. This option is permitted only when using the BASIC authentication method. Also, it is mutually exclusive with all other options related to BASIC authentication sources.
-j value
--jaas-custom=value
Optional none Use the custom JAAS application configuration with the specified name. This option is permitted only when using the BASIC authentication method. Also, it is mutually exclusive with all other options related to BASIC authentication sources.
-D value
--default-domain=value
Optional SPOTFIRE The name of the default domain. A user belonging to the default domain need not specify domain name as part of his or her user name when logging in to the server.
-p <true|false>
--parse-user-and-domain-name=<true|false>
Optional true Indicates whether the user name consists of both a user and a domain part that should be parsed. it is recommended that you avoid changing the default value of "true", except when you are running the user directory in database mode, and the user names are in either NetBIOS name format (domain\user) or email name format (user@domain).
-s value
--site-name=value
Optional none The name of the site for which the configuration should be applied. Any configuration made with this flag will affect only the specified site.