topic Re: Alfresco Authentication Configuration in Alfresco Archive

Alfresco Authentication Configuration

plattnum — Tue, 02 Mar 2010 17:58:51 GMT

I am in a situation where I have Alfresco (Custom) Authentication and LDAP chained. Its working great however I was wondering if there is any out of the box configuration settings for Alfresco (Custom) Authentication that supportisabling user account after X number of password attempts.Block the u

Re: Alfresco Authentication Configuration

zaizi — Wed, 03 Mar 2010 09:22:04 GMT

Alfresco does not include ability to display accounts after failed login or block use of previous passwords.

You would typically configure this in LDAP service or Active Directory.

Re: Alfresco Authentication Configuration

plattnum — Wed, 03 Mar 2010 18:32:46 GMT

Thanks for confirming!

I figured as much after seeing an absence of information in the WIKI and nothing in any of the configuration files that would enable or configure settings for the controls I mentioned.

…and I agree with you that this is typcially done in external authentication repository/services. I am in a temporary situation until we federate authentication between two different organizational domains…and the use of custom Alfresco authentication is the temporary means by which we will provide external users to access the repository. (I would have preferred to add them to our LDAP/Active directory or a secondary chained directory but have not been allowed to do so due to time frame and other business non-technical reasons.)

Thanks for responding to the question.

Jeff