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Topic Title: Active Directory
Topic Summary: Does DOORS 8.0 work with Active Directory?
Created On: 26-Apr-2006 12:53
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 26-Apr-2006 12:53
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Tony Goodman

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Has anyone managed to get DOORS to work with Active Directory?

I know it works with LDAP and the documentation says it supports Active Directory, but I am told by our IT guys that they can't get DOORS to work with active directory.

Any feedback on this would be greatly appreciated.

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 26-Apr-2006 14:39
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Hazel Woodcock

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Yes it works, I have seen it work.

What sort of 'not working'?

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 27-Apr-2006 11:48
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Tony Goodman

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The opposite of 'working' ;-)

I have not been told the details, but I think it was due to us trying it with DOORS 7.1.

Telelogic say we must have DOORS 8.0 with the latest patch 6.

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 27-Apr-2006 14:54
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Hazel Woodcock

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Oh, yes, sorry!

It works with 8.0 with sufficient patches. It wasn't supported in 7.1 and there were some wierd things going on before patch 4.
The settings aren't really obvious either, but an ADS specialist should be able to cope, or support should be able to give you a screenshot of sensible settings.
It is very impressive when it all springs to life, but I seem to recall that single sign on is a problem.

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 14-Jun-2006 19:39
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Lillian Kelly

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We are currently using DOORS 8.0 with patch 06 and my question with Active Directory is can it work to authenticate DOORS users only and to manage DOORS groups within DOORS? From the provided documentation, it seems all (user and group) to be in AD or nothing? Has any one done it and under which configuration (all users and group in AD or just user authentication)? Thank you for your reply in advance.

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 15-Jun-2006 06:52
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Pekka Mäkinen

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Not have done it in Active Directory, but basically it is the same as LDAP, and if you choose to use LDAP all user and group management has to be done on the LDAP (or Active Directory). The only user / group management which you can do at the DOORS side is the setting of user types and granting access right to users or groups (defined in LDAP).

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 15-Jun-2006 11:39
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Tony Goodman

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Out IT guys are currently trying to get DOORS to work with active directory.
News so far is not good.
It does NOT support single login - the documentation even states that you must have password enabled when using LDAP.
So what's the point?
We were hoping for a single login without users having to login to doors.

Also, all the AD users get created in DOORS - there does not seem to be a way of filtering this list.

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 15-Jun-2006 12:06
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Pekka Mäkinen

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You can have a subset of LDAP users as DOoRS users, if you name a specific group which contains all the DOORS users. Then DOORS does not create or authenticate the other groups / users. It is the "Maintain a group of all DOORS users" selection in the LDAP configuration.

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 15-Jun-2006 12:07
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Pekka Mäkinen

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Of course, this discussion was on the AD - is the "Maintain a group of all DOORS users" also valid on AD?

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 15-Jun-2006 12:19
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Tony Goodman

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Not sure whether that works or not.

Either way, if you can't have a single login - i.e. user is autheticated by the OS only, then I cannot see any advantage to using LDAP or AD, other than taking the pain out of creating users.

If anyone has any experience of using AD then I would be interested in hearing about it.

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 15-Jun-2006 22:53
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Louie Landale

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Just in case: you are aware that you can configure a DOORS database to bypass the login screen: DOORS detects your System login name and if there is exactly one DOORS user with that name as their "system username" then you go straight into DOORS. If there is more than one such DOORS users, perhaps "landale-Admin" and "landale-Bonehead", then the login screen appears but the password field is greyed out. I'm pretty sure you cannot log into DOORS as some user that doesn't match your system user name.

- Louie
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