DOT USER MANAGER
The DOT User Manager provides a simple means of controlling access and defining what a user is allowed to do on a service.
User Authentication can be either via a local file (useful for development and testing) or delegated to a company-wide LDAP or Active Directory service.
So why would you want it?
To add a consistent, cross-platform user access control to your systems which is easy to set up and easy to monitor.
LDAP (or Active Directory) can provide this, but it's usually as a tightly-controlled resource under a restrictive change control policy. However, by using the DOT User Manager, developers can develop and test systems without bothering the network management teams, while production systems can still easily be switched to use the company-wide LDAP server for production deployments..
When LDAP is used, it's only to control user name/password, while the groups and service allocation data is managed in a local database.
How it works:
A server is installed holding sets of permissions for each application. The permissions are assigned to groups of users and each user can be in multiple groups.
The user name/password verification can either be performed by entries in the local permissions database or deferred to the Company LDAP or Active Directory service.
A simple API is provided for client applications to make authentication requests and an audit log of all activity is maintained.
