After you set up your users, you can enable Windows user authentication in the server
by using command-line switches.
Before you begin
Before you perform this task, set up your smart card users
and associate a distinguished name with the administrator user.
To
use Windows user authentication,
you must use an instance of Rational® DOORS® database server V9.3 or
later that is configured to exclude Rational DOORS clients that are earlier
than V9.3. To exclude earlier clients, on the Login Policy tab
of the database properties, set the minimum client version to 9.3.
About this task
To enable Windows user
authentication, you run the doorsd command and
the dbadmin command. First, you run doorsd to
run the database server. Then, you run dbadmin to
enable and disable Windows user
authentication.
Procedure
- On a command prompt, run the database server by entering
the doorsd command:
doorsd
- Run the database server with Windows user authentication enabled by entering
the dbadmin command with the -useOSUserAuthentication command-line
switch:
dbadmin -useOSUserAuthentication
You can disable Windows user
authentication by entering the dbadmin with the -doNotUseOSUserAuthentication command-line
switch.
Results
When you enable Windows user
authentication, you no longer use user name and password authentication
to log on to the Rational DOORS client. To verify that Windows
user authentication is being used, on the Login Policy tab
of the database properties, make sure that the Use OS user
authentication field is selected.
What to do next
After you complete this task, enable Windows user authentication in the client.
Follow the instructions in
Enabling Windows user authentication in the client.