After you set up your users, you enable smart card authentication in the database 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 smart card 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 smart card authentication, you run the
doorsd command and the
dbadmin command. First, you run
doorsd to run the database server in secure mode. Then, you run
dbadmin to enable and disable smart card authentication.
Procedure
- On a command prompt, run the database server in secure mode by entering the doorsd command with the -secure command-line switch set to on:
doorsd -secure on
- Run the database server with smart card authentication enabled by entering the dbadmin command with the -useCardAuthentication command-line switch:
dbadmin -useCardAuthentication
You can disable smart card authentication by entering the dbadmin command with the -doNotUseCardAuthentication command-line switch.
Results
When you enable smart card authentication, you no longer use user name and password authentication to log on to the Rational DOORS client. To verify that smart card authentication is being used, on the Login Policy tab of the database properties, make sure that the Use card authentication field is selected.
What to do next
After you complete this task, enable authentication in the client.
If you are using public key infrastructure (PKI), follow the instructions in Enabling PKI authentication in the client. If you are using Microsoft Certificate Store (MCS), follow the instructions in Enabling MCS authentication in the client.