Since version 7.0.11, MongoDB natively supports OpenID Connect (OIDC) authentication. This move was part of MongoDB’s cloud strategy, since cloud environments use OIDC a lot for authentication and authorization. In version 8.0, MongoDB deprecated LDAP authentication and authorization, making it clear that OIDC is the future for MongoDB authentication. In this blog, I will present how to set up OIDC…
In OpenText Directory Services (OTDS), you have multiple ways to handle two-factor authentication (2FA) or multi-factor authentication (MFA). As a quick reminder, 2FA is simply the fact that you need to prove your identity in 2 different ways (e.g. a username/password + a One-Time-Password or a token or a biometric signature or …) while the MFA is at least 2…
As you might know, Documentum “deprecated” (in reality disabled completely) the different Authentication Plugins that were bundled with a Documentum Server. That means that with recent versions of Documentum, you cannot login to your LDAP-managed account anymore without having configured an OTDS and integrated it with your Documentum Server. After you installed the OTDS, and configured it to work with…
This post gives a short intro to directory naming, shows how to import from tnsnames.ora to an LDAP directory. Finally, as an alternative, you get an example how a TNS connection string looks like in ldif file format. LDIF can be used universally to export and importing data to LDAP directories. What is directory naming? In order to connect to…
I got the question if it is possible to have a the WebLogic JDBC Data Source to be resolved by an LDAP entry. The answer is yes; since WebLogic 12.2.1.3 a JDBC connection pool URL declaration can point to an LDAP entry. This can be done by simply editing an existing JDBC data source. jdbc:oracle:thin:@ldap://vm01.dbi-workshop.com:1389/cn=orcl,cn=OracleContext,dc=DatabaseConnection,dc=com Of course the LDAP server…
Using an LDAP Server with Documentum (or any ECM for that matter) is pretty common to avoid managing users locally. In this blog, I wanted to talk about something that isn’t very common and that is the change of an LDAP Server. I’m not talking about just changing the server where your LDAP is hosted but rather changing the full…
As part of the same migration & upgrade project I talked about in previous blogs already (corrupt lockbox, duplicate objects & wrong target_server), I have seen a very annoying and, this time, absolutely not consistent behavior in some upgrade from Documentum 7.x to 16.x versions. The issue or rather the issues I had was that random DAR files were not…
In a previous blog, I explained how it is possible to create an LDAP/LDAPs connection from a Documentum Content Server automatically/silently (without any need for a GUI). So I thought I would do the same thing but from a WebLogic Server to have the full chain from the Application to the backend, all connected to the LDAP/LDAPs. This blog isn’t…
In a previous blog, I talked about the automation of the LDAP/LDAPs creation. However, the first time that I applied these steps, I actually faced an issue and I couldn’t really get my head around it, at first. This will be a rather short post but I still wanted to share my thoughts because it might avoid you some headache.…
If you have been working with Documentum, then you probably already created/configured an LDAP/LDAPs Server Config Object (or several) so that your users can be globally managed in your organization. There are several compatible LDAP Servers so I will just take one (Sun One/Netscpae/iPlanet Directory Server). To create this LDAP/LDAPs Server Config Object, you probably used Documentum Administrator because it’s…
This blog will go straight to the topic. When upgrading/installing your content server to 7+, you may experience an internal error with a popup telling you to look into a file called something like: DBTestResult7092863812136784595.tmp In fact, the installation process failed to test the database connection. Even if it managed to find your schema previously. In the file you’ll find…
