LDAP and Cognos 8 Security.

[dcardonne]

I am not able to authenticate our users in Cognos 8 portal (Cognos Connection and Report Studio), and this is the error message.
“The provided credentials are invalid. Please type your credentials for authentication. “

Technical information.
1- We have Network Security based on Active Directory and the OS is Windows-2003.
2- Cognos was configured to use Apache Web Server.
3- The test to LDAP namespace is successful from Cognos Configuration.
4- But REMOTE_USER variable is set to Null.

This is my problem, if somebody can help me I’ll really appreciate it.
Thanks in advance
Dina

 

[gmail1]

Hi,

try to check the user lookup may be that is not given properly, it should start from the group under which the user resides then comes the organisational unit.

 

[christenhusz]

Hi,

REMOTE_USER variable is not used by default in apache webserver. In IIS it is used and filled. But REMOTE_USER variable only is used when you configure SSO.

In which LDAP type are your users stored? AD, sun one ...?

christenhusz

 

[dcardonne]

Hi,

Thank you for helping, Users are stored in Active Directory.
I'm not expert in Security if you can point me in the right direction I'll appreciate it.

Dina

 

[dcardonne]

Hi gmail1,

Thank you for helping,

I've configured the new namespace like Active Directory (in Cognos Configuration), in this type of namespace I can not see any place to set up the user lookup, can you please tell me if I misunderstood you.

Dina

 

[misscognos]

are your active directory and cognos server on the same domain? in case they are not, you will have to configure the namespace as an ldap authentication and not an active directory.