Spotfire® Server and Environment - Installation and Administration

Preventing administrators from adding local users when using LDAP

You can prevent administrator from adding local users to the Spotfire database when authenticating towards an external directory.

Procedure

  1. Open a command line and export the active server configuration by using the export-config command; for additional information, see Executing commands on the command line.
  2. On the command line, enter the following command:
    config set-config-prop --name=user-directory.allow-database-user-creation --value=false

    For information on the command, see set-config-prop.

    Note: To enable the feature again, run the same command but set the value to "true".
  3. Import the configuration file back to the Spotfire database by using the import-config command.
  4. Restart the Spotfire Server.