Enabling Windows user authentication in the database server

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 General 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

  1. On a command prompt, start the database server by entering the doorsd command.
    doorsd -start
  2. Run the database server with Windows user authentication enabled by entering the dbadmin command with the -useOSUserAuthentication command-line switch:
    dbadmin -data 36677@ServerHostName -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 Policy tab of the Login Properties window, 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.
Related concepts:
Configuring the Rational DOORS database

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