topic Form Based Authentication with Active Directory in Windchill Customization

Form Based Authentication with Active Directory

xolomon — Fri, 15 Mar 2024 14:14:27 GMT

Dear Community,

we are planning to change the Windchill Authentication to Form Based Authentication.
Windchill is connected to the Active Directory of the customer as well.
How does the configuration look like in the tomcat settings? Does anybody have an example?

We have entered in the server.xml the Realm entries as below (but we are not sure about how the Active Directory entry look like):

In the web.xml file:

Thanks in advance.

Re: Form Based Authentication with Active Directory

rleir — Mon, 06 Dec 2021 12:55:29 GMT

There are many search results for this in the link below, I hope one will help you.

cheers -- Rick

https://support.ptc.com/search/Pages/results.aspx#k=form%20based%20authentication

Re: Form Based Authentication with Active Directory

xolomon — Wed, 08 Dec 2021 09:12:13 GMT

Hi,

thanks for your response. This was more specific question which I couldn't find any solution in the PTC support page.

We have managed to configure based on the article below. Each company has different LDAP configuration and it has to adjusted accordingly.

https://tomcat.apache.org/tomcat-7.0-doc/realm-howto.html#JNDIRealm

Cheers.