Step 6. Enable Automatic Log Ins
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Enable/Disable Windows Authentication
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Procedure
Windows Authentication Guidelines
- When a user:
- Attempts to log into CIMPLICITY, if the Windows user name/password are not valid or CIMPLICITY does not find the user in any of the groups, the user is denied CIMPLICITY access.
- Logs into CIMPLICITY for the first time using Windows authentication, that user is automatically added to CIMPLICITY's list of users.
- Is listed in the CIMPLICITY list, user specifications can be modified the same way as for any other user.
- When the new Windows Authentication module tries to validate a user with auto log in, If Windows Authentication does not have a valid user/password to use to query the domain controller, it uses the current user that the process is running under.
On a default installation Windows authentication runs as a system user; depending on how the domain is set up there is a good chance that the system user will not have the ability to query the domain.
To make sure Windows authentication can query the domain:
Procedure
- Open the Services control panel.
- Make the CIMPLICITY HMI service run under a domain account that has privileges to query the domain.