ldap

MongoDB OIDC authentication with Okta

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(…)

Dctm – MFA & non-MFA within OTDS based on target Applications

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.

Documentum – Login through OTDS without oTExternalID3

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(…)

Import tnsnames.ora in LDAP directory

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(…)

Using LDAP resolved connection descriptor in WebLogic JDBC data sources.

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(…)

Documentum – Change/Rename of LDAP Config object

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(…)

Documentum Upgrade – Missing DARs after upgrade

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(…)

WebLogic Server – Automatic/Silent creation of an LDAP Authentication Provider

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(…)

Documentum – LDAP Config Object “certdb_location” has invalid value

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,(…)

Documentum – Automatic/Silent creation of LDAP/LDAPs Server Config Objects

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(…)