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AuthAndAuth
kasemir edited this page Jul 8, 2013
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CSS provides a pluggable API for Authentication and Authorization.
Authentication allows your users to "log in", usually with a name and password.
The CSS offers an implementation based on JAAS, which itself is pluggable and supports connections to your existing site-wide authentication mechanisms based on Kerberos or LDAP for checking if the user entered a valid password.
Once a user is authenticated, i.e. CSS knows for sure who's sitting in front of the terminal, authorization determines what this user is allowed to do: Acknowledge alarms? Change the alarm system configuration?
CSS offers implementations based on various LDAP schemas.
See Authentication and Authorization chapter in http://cs-studio.sourceforge.net/docbook/