topic Custom Authentication Subsystem + CIFS in Alfresco Archive https://connect.hyland.com/t5/alfresco-archive/custom-authentication-subsystem-cifs/m-p/272712#M225842 <HTML><HEAD></HEAD><BODY><SPAN>I wrote a custom authentication subsystem to authenticate user on an external database for some protocols (ftp, cmis, cifs,…) and support CAS SSO for standard HTTP request. The subsystem works fine but I can't use the CIFS protocol. </SPAN><BR /><PRE class="language-none line-numbers"><CODE><BR />authentication.chain=myDbCAS1:myDbCAS<BR /><SPAN class="line-numbers-rows"><SPAN>‍</SPAN><SPAN>‍</SPAN><SPAN>‍</SPAN></SPAN></CODE></PRE><SPAN> </SPAN><BR /><SPAN>myDbCAS is the custom susbsystem</SPAN><BR /><BR /><SPAN>Reading the wiki I found that the standard alfrescoNTLM subsystem can manage the CIFS authetication, so I added it to my authentication chain</SPAN><BR /><PRE class="language-none line-numbers"><CODE><BR />authentication.chain=pumaCAS1:pumaCAS,alfrescoNtlm1:alfrescoNtlm<BR /><SPAN class="line-numbers-rows"><SPAN>‍</SPAN><SPAN>‍</SPAN><SPAN>‍</SPAN></SPAN></CODE></PRE><SPAN> </SPAN><BR /><BR /><SPAN>Now I can access via CIFS with the Alfresco local user (ie: admin). I would access the CIFS with the user stored in myDb.</SPAN><BR /><SPAN>My authenticationComponent class implements NLTMAuthenticator interface. If I change the file alfresco-authentication-context.xml using my class</SPAN><BR /><BR /><PRE class="language-none line-numbers"><CODE><BR />…<BR /><BR />&nbsp;&nbsp; &lt;bean id="authenticationComponent" class="it.quix.alfresco.repo.security.authentication.MyDbAuthenticationComponentImpl"<BR />&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp; parent="authenticationComponentBase"&gt;<BR />&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp; &lt;property name="nodeService"&gt;<BR />&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp; &lt;ref bean="nodeService" /&gt;<BR />&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp; &lt;/property&gt;<BR />&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp; &lt;property name="personService"&gt;<BR />&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp; &lt;ref bean="personService" /&gt;<BR />&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp; &lt;/property&gt;<BR />&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp; &lt;property name="transactionService"&gt;<BR />&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp; &lt;ref bean="transactionService" /&gt;<BR />&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp; &lt;/property&gt;<BR />&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp; &lt;property name="defaultAdministratorUserNameList"&gt;<BR />&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp; &lt;value&gt;${mydb.authentication.defaultAdministratorUserNames}&lt;/value&gt;<BR />&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp; &lt;/property&gt;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp; <BR />&nbsp;&nbsp; &lt;/bean&gt;<BR />&nbsp;&nbsp; <BR />…..<BR /><SPAN class="line-numbers-rows"><SPAN>‍</SPAN><SPAN>‍</SPAN><SPAN>‍</SPAN><SPAN>‍</SPAN><SPAN>‍</SPAN><SPAN>‍</SPAN><SPAN>‍</SPAN><SPAN>‍</SPAN><SPAN>‍</SPAN><SPAN>‍</SPAN><SPAN>‍</SPAN><SPAN>‍</SPAN><SPAN>‍</SPAN><SPAN>‍</SPAN><SPAN>‍</SPAN><SPAN>‍</SPAN><SPAN>‍</SPAN><SPAN>‍</SPAN><SPAN>‍</SPAN><SPAN>‍</SPAN><SPAN>‍</SPAN></SPAN></CODE></PRE><BR /><SPAN>I can perform CIFS authentication on MyDb. But don't appear to be a clear solution. I would prefer that mydb subsystem support CIFS protocol. What I have to do?</SPAN><BR /><BR /><SPAN>Thanks</SPAN></BODY></HTML> Tue, 15 May 2012 15:00:41 GMT andrepra 2012-05-15T15:00:41Z Custom Authentication Subsystem + CIFS https://connect.hyland.com/t5/alfresco-archive/custom-authentication-subsystem-cifs/m-p/272712#M225842 I wrote a custom authentication subsystem to authenticate user on an external database for some protocols (ftp, cmis, cifs,…) and support CAS SSO for standard HTTP request. The subsystem works fine but I can't use the CIFS protocol. authentication.chain=myDbCAS1:myDbCAS‍‍‍ myDbCAS is the custom susb Tue, 15 May 2012 15:00:41 GMT https://connect.hyland.com/t5/alfresco-archive/custom-authentication-subsystem-cifs/m-p/272712#M225842 andrepra 2012-05-15T15:00:41Z Re: Custom Authentication Subsystem + CIFS https://connect.hyland.com/t5/alfresco-archive/custom-authentication-subsystem-cifs/m-p/272713#M225843 <HTML><HEAD></HEAD><BODY><SPAN>Hello,</SPAN><BR /><BR /><SPAN>your authentication subsystem needs to provide a bean called "cifsAuthenticator" (implementing the ICIFSAuthenticator interface) in order to be invoked when CIFS connections need to be authenticated. That bean than ties into your DB based authentication.</SPAN><BR /><BR /><SPAN>Regards</SPAN><BR /><SPAN>Axel</SPAN></BODY></HTML> Mon, 28 May 2012 13:21:12 GMT https://connect.hyland.com/t5/alfresco-archive/custom-authentication-subsystem-cifs/m-p/272713#M225843 afaust 2012-05-28T13:21:12Z