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Sometimes, is deployed to an existing servlet container that is already handling user authentications through, for instance, LDAP. Here the authentication is the responsibility of the container, but is still responsible for the runtime authorization and the design time querying of user metadata. The LDAP Container Security Manager reuses the existing LDAP connector but relies on the container for user authentications.

 

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frevvo only supports/certifies the LDAP Container Security Manager in the Apache Tomcat container. Refer to our Supported Platforms for the list of Application Servers supported/certified by frevvo.

  

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  • There must be a frevvo.User group in Active Directory
  • All the users in your LDAP-CSM tenant must be members of this group
  • The tenant admin must have the roles of frevvo.TenantAdmin, frevvo.Designer and frevvo.User.
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  • If you have developed applications/forms/flows in your starter/trial cloud tenant that you want to preserve, download them to your desktop as a backup BEFORE changing the existing Security Manager to the LDAP Container Security Manager.
  •   The group names for these three special roles must be frevvo.User, frevvo.TenantAdmin, and frevvo.Designer. Upper/lower case may be a factor for Open LDAP systems.
  • frevvo Best Practice recommends that you create a user account in your Active Directory or IDP that will house all of your deployed Production forms/flows. This user can be named anything i.e.frevvoProduction but it must be a member of the frevvo.Designer group.   
  • If you want to preserve Applications/Forms/flows developed in your trial/starter tenant, download them to your desktop as a backup BEFORE changing the Security Manager
  • frevvo only supports /certifies the LDAP Container Security Manager when is running in the tomcat container. Refer to our Supported Platforms for the list of Application Servers supported/certified by frevvo.

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