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 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.