Configure Custom Security

This feature is available only in Enterprise Edition.

To use a custom Java class for authentication (i.e., verifying user credentials), select the ‘Custom’ option from the ‘Provider Type’ menu on the ‘Security Provider’ page. (See Specify Security Provider.)

Multi-tenancy Disabled

If multi-tenancy is not enabled (see Enable Multi-Tenancy for more information), follow the steps below:

  1. Enter inetsoft.sree.security.CustomAuthenticationProvider in the ‘Authentication Class’ field.

  2. Enter the desired JSON content from into the ‘JSON Configuration’ field. The default organization is host-org. For example:

    Expand to see example JSON content 
    {
  "users" : [ {
    "name" : "admin",
    "organization" : "host-org",
    "emails" : [ "free.user@example.com" ],
    "groups" : [ ],
    "roles" : [ "Administrator", "Everyone" ],
    "password" : "success123"
  }, {
    "name" : "guest",
    "organization" : "selfOrgtest",
    "emails" : [ "guest.user@example.com" ],
    "groups" : [ ],
    "roles" : [ "Everyone" ],
    "password" : "success123"
  }, {
    "name" : "userC1",
    "organization" : "host-org",
    "emails" : [ "userC1@example.com" ],
    "groups" : [ "groupC0" ],
    "roles" : [ "Everyone", "roleC0" ],
    "password" : "success123"
  } ],
  "groups" : [ {
    "name" : "groupC0",
    "organization" : "host-org",
    "groups" : [ ],
    "roles" : [ ]
  }, {
    "name" : "groupC1",
    "organization" : "host-org",
    "groups" : [ "groupC0" ],
    "roles" : [ ]
  } ],
  "roles" : [ {
    "name" : "Administrator",
    "organization" : "host-org",
    "roles" : [ ],
    "defaultRole" : true
  }, {
    "name" : "Everyone",
    "organization" : "selfOrgtest",
    "roles" : [ ],
    "defaultRole" : true
  }, {
    "name" : "roleC0",
    "organization" : "host-org",
    "roles" : [ ],
    "defaultRole" : false
  }, {
    "name" : "roleC1",
    "organization" : "host-org",
    "roles" : [ "roleC0" ],
    "defaultRole" : false
  } ],
  "organizations" : [ {
    "name" : "Host Organization",
    "organizationID" : "host-org",
    "members" : [ "admin", "userC1", "userC2", "groupC0", "groupC1" ]
  }, {
    "name" : "selfOrg",
    "organizationID" : "selfOrgtest",
    "members" : [ "guest" ]
  } ]
}

Multi-tenancy Enabled

If multi-tenancy is enabled (see Enable Multi-Tenancy for more information), follow the steps below:

  1. Enter inetsoft.sree.security.CustomAuthenticationProvider in the ‘Authentication Class’ field.

  2. Enter the desired JSON content from into the ‘JSON Configuration’ field. Multiple orgabnizations can be specified. For example:

    Expand to see example JSON content 
    {
"users" : [ {
"name" : "admin",
"emails" : [ "free.user@example.com" ],
"groups" : [ ],
"roles" : [ "Administrator", "Everyone" ],
"organization":"Orgtest",
"password" : "success123"
}, {
"name" : "guest",
"emails" : [ "guest.user@example.com" ],
"groups" : [ ],
"roles" : [ "Everyone" ],
"organization":"selfOrgtest",
"password" : "success123"
}, {
"name" : "userC1",
"emails" : [ "userC1@example.com" ],
"groups" : [ "groupC0" ],
"roles" : [ "Everyone", "roleC0","Organization Administrator" ],
"organization":"Orgtest",
"password" : "success123"
}, {
"name" : "userC2",
"emails" : [ "userC2@example.com" ],
"groups" : [ "groupC1" ],
"roles" : [ "Everyone", "roleC1" ],
"organization":"Orgtest",
"password" : "success123"
} ],
"groups" : [ {
"name" : "groupC0",
"groups" : [ ],
"organization":"Orgtest",
"roles" : [ ]
}, {
"name" : "groupC1",
"groups" : [ "groupC0" ],
"organization":"Orgtest",
"roles" : [ ]
} ],
"roles" : [ {
"name" : "Administrator",
"roles" : [ ],
"defaultRole" : true
}, {
"name" : "Everyone",
"roles" : [ ],
"organization": "Orgtest",
"defaultRole" : true
}, {
"name" : "Everyone",
"roles" : [ ],
"organization":"selfOrgtest",
"defaultRole" : true
}, {
"name" : "Organization Administrator",
"roles" : [ ],
"defaultRole" : false
}, {
"name" : "roleC0",
"roles" : [ ],
"organization": "Orgtest",
"defaultRole" : false
}, {
"name" : "roleC1",
"roles" : [ "roleC0" ],
"organization": "Orgtest",
"defaultRole" : false
} ],
"organizations" : [ {
"name" : "Org",
"organizationID" : "Orgtest",
"members" : ["admin","userC1","userC2","groupC0","groupC1"],
"roles": ["Administrator","Everyone","roleC0","roleC1","Organization Administrator"]
}, {
"name" : "selfOrg",
"organizationID" : "selfOrgtest",
"members" : ["guest"],
"roles": ["Administrator","Organization Administrator"]
} ]
}