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Usability

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Support First Time Password change between SSP/SEAS and B2Bi managed user accounts and subsequent password change should be allowed via SSP password portal to change the B2Bi password through SEAS.

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over 6 years ago in Sterling External Authentication Server / Usability 1 Future consideration

Enable CRL Cache for CRL Check using the Distribution Points

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over 5 years ago in Sterling External Authentication Server / Usability 0 Future consideration

SFG/SI users changing password with SEAS

There is presently no way to for a myfilegateway user to change their password if Sterling External Authenticator is used. Which seems odd because SFG can talk to SEA and validate an SSO token. There needs to be a feature to allow users to change ...
almost 7 years ago in Sterling External Authentication Server / Usability 0 Functionality already exists

include the encrypt/decrypt (export/import) passphrase into the properties file for rest api calls

We were looking to find a way to automate updating passwords for some of our accounts within SEAS utilized in our connection settings. It prompts for a decrypt passphrase that we cannot seem to pass values through automatically via script and we w...
about 4 years ago in Sterling External Authentication Server / Usability 0 Planned for future release

SEAS Logging Update - User Account/Key Auth

We have SEAS pointing to an LDAP for authentication. When a user account fails to authenticate via SSH public/private key, the logs show that failure in 'error' mode, but that line does not contain the useraccount that failed to log in. We can onl...
almost 7 years ago in Sterling External Authentication Server / Usability 0 Future consideration

More detailed ERROR logging for SEAS

SEAS logging at ERROR level does not provide sufficient information regarding authentication failures, forcing us to keep logging level at DEBUG which uses an extremely high amount of disk space in order to have sufficient log retention. For examp...
almost 7 years ago in Sterling External Authentication Server / Usability 0 Functionality already exists

Functionality to test profiles

We need some method to test a configured SEAS engine before integrating it with the rest of our environment. Currently we can only test it by pointing SSP to the new engine and attempting to log in. This means that we can't test the SEAS config in...
over 5 years ago in Sterling External Authentication Server / Usability 0 Planned for future release

SSP User ID based routing in clustered environment

They are detailed in the attached document
almost 7 years ago in Sterling External Authentication Server / Usability 0 Not under consideration

OpenLDAP support - Force password change on File Gateway Logon

We use OpenLDAP for password authentication of our external customers. Spoke with IBM developers (listed in PMR - Naru Manda) and was told that when Sterling was written because OpenLDAP did not have a password policy at the time, that no hook was...
almost 7 years ago in Sterling External Authentication Server / Usability 1 Needs more information