topic Re: admin NTLM in Alfresco Archive

admin NTLM

gerryr — Mon, 06 Jan 2014 15:29:14 GMT

I have a site that is under the 'admin' account.I upgraded to NTLM authentication which went fine and now my AD users can login.However, I can no longer login as the 'admin' account. I can login as the 'Administrator' of the domain which works fine. The problem is that now there is this orphan site

Re: admin NTLM

scouil — Mon, 06 Jan 2014 15:37:54 GMT

Hi,

If I understand well, you modified your login chain to add AD and remove NTLM.
So that gives you 2 options:
1- add the NTLM in your login chain
Both AD and NTLM can coexist. Having both would enable you to invite external users for example and would reenable the admin account.
2- Add you new admin as a site manager.
To do so, browse to the admin panel > groups
Then search for the group: "<name of your site> (site_<name of your site>)"
Inside it you should have the 4 groups for the 4 permissions. Find the site_<name of your site>_manager and add your new admin there.
This will make your new admin user be automatically a manager of the site of your choice

Re: admin NTLM

gerryr — Mon, 06 Jan 2014 15:50:00 GMT

No. Here is my authentication chain:
authentication.chain=passthru1assthru,ldap-ad1:ldap-ad,alfrescoNtlm1:alfrescoNtlm

And everything is working with regard to AD users. But I cannot login as the 'admin' user.

And I tried editing the site manager group for this site and the only thing that I can edit is the Display Name.

Re: admin NTLM

gerryr — Mon, 06 Jan 2014 18:41:07 GMT

Logging in as 'admin' appears to have some relationship to how the browser is presenting the login box.

When the small login box appears I cannot login as 'admin'. But I finally got an Alfresco page login box and there I could login as 'admin'. From there I invited another person to become a site manager so the site problem is now solved.

Chrome is the browser that seems to present the small login box most of the time. Only rarely does it give me the Alfresco login page when I go to /share/. Probably no way to control this behavior.

Re: admin NTLM

scouil — Tue, 07 Jan 2014 09:41:48 GMT

There shouldn't be any "small login box".
What version of alfresco are you using?
What is your network configuration? Are you behind a proxy of some sort?
Does it appears as well when you go to /alfresco ?

Re: admin NTLM

gerryr — Mon, 13 Jan 2014 19:31:33 GMT

The small login box is the browsers own basic authentication login box. Most of the time I am seeing this login box. As I said there may be no way to control this behavior. The problem lies in the fact that you cannot login as 'admin' using the small login box. Only when you see the Alfresco login page can you login as 'admin'.

I finally was able to have the domain administrator account become the site manager for the orphan site so the original issue is solved.