Disabling the username and password fields in the Spotfire Analyst login dialog

Because the Kerberos authentication method provides single sign-on capabilities, there is no need to prompt the end user for user name and password in the Spotfire Analyst login dialog.

About this task

Note: This step is optional.

Procedure

Open a command line and export the active configuration (the configuration.xml file) by using the export-config command; for additional information, see Executing commands on the command line.

Execute the config-login-dialog command:

> config config-login-dialog --allow-user-provided-credentials=false

Import the configuration file back to the Spotfire database by using the import-config command.
Restart the Spotfire Server service.

Note: If you are using the configuration tool, on the Login dialog page, next to Allow user provided credentials, click No.